How are the managers at Niantic?

Agree that the managers are generally inspiring and high quality. Disagree about the growth opportunities. I'm now managing close to 15 directs and the company has actively resisted my efforts to develop the people beneath me into leaders even though some have the potential and desire - this has frustrated them as well as me. With so many directs, my day is completely dominated by meetings and I've had to slash relatively important ones so I can continue to do my job and keep the team going. Going on like this isn't sustainable.

Really inspiring people that I'm honored to work with. Managers know both management and the domains they're managing. Unfortunately most managers are spread pretty thinly - the company clearly wants a flat structure and resisted building out an additional layer of management longer than it should have. But the company is aware of it and working on it, which leads to some fantastic opportunities for people here.