I had to look up "skip-level" since my large tech company lingo was lacking.

It is defined as:

used to describe someone who works for a company at two levels higher than another person, or a meeting or relationship that involves an employee and a manager at two levels higher

by Cambridge's dictionary[1]. That makes it really complicated when the article talks about 1-3 skip levels, I'm not sure how to interpret that ... is it (my level + 1 + n) or (my level + 2 * n)?

Edit: the mathyness.

[1]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/skip-lev...