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Serious question: what is it like being on an engineering team like this? Where the explicit objective is to clone a competitor head-to-toe. Does it impact mora
by abalone 10y ago
Serious question: what is it like being on an engineering team like this? Where the explicit objective is to clone a competitor head-to-toe. Does it impact morale? Can you recruit great people to such teams?
(Note, I get that nothing is completely original out there, and that there are a few differences between this and Snapchat.)
- tedmiston 10y agoI have met some members of Instagram's engineering team at Python conferences. They also run a dedicated engineering blog (https://engineering.instagram.com https://engineering.instagram.com). Despite the fact that they use an old version of Django, and the product has not exactly changed drastically since it became popular, they don't seem jaded. Sometimes it's fun to build your own version of something regardless of what exists in the rest of the world. I'm sure nuances will become more prominent in time.
- askafriend 10y agoThe Instagram folks are awesome, and active in the developer community!