Modal treats management and individual-contributor roles as equal in prestige and emphasizes employees' contributions rather than title.

“I think that shift actually started even before GenAI, but I do think it's, like, heavily accelerated with AI. Like, you know, we, we, we make it very clear to everyone at Modal that, like, manager or IC, it's like there's no difference in prestige. Like, everyone is just a member of technical staff.”

“You know, it's about ultimately your contributions, and we see a lot of ex-managers, you know, becoming ICs and, and-- 'cause they wanna go back and build code.”