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You ever Notice how the engineering departments at these move fast and break things companies grow exponentially? Thinking of etsy, and Facebook, and a few oth
by swalsh 11y ago
You ever Notice how the engineering departments at these move fast and break things companies grow exponentially? Thinking of etsy, and Facebook, and a few others.
Part of it is if they survive, they thrived... But I think the other part is that the code starts to become sharded across people's brains. The technical debt piles up so high in some places that it becomes impossible to maintain productivity with the same number of people.
- debacle 11y agoI think that's a non sequitur. Every startup engineering department grows exponentially. It's the only way for an engineering department to grow.