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Actually it actually wrong to assume somebody could solve a trivial problem in a weekend, however some companies still have way too many people working at it. C
by merb 10y ago
Actually it actually wrong to assume somebody could solve a trivial problem in a weekend, however some companies still have way too many people working at it.
Consider twitter with their 3860 people. they could probably do it with half of them. especially the technical people are 40% of the company... way too much. i don't think that they need no people but well...
- r_smart 10y agoYeah, this post seems to be addressing an annoying conversational experience, but ignores the other side: the reality, which you describe. I understand that just scaling out their platform is a ton of work that justifies having a lot of engineers. But how does Twitter have so many engineers on staff and yet their users constantly complain that they don't improve even seemingly low hanging fruit? Is ~1,500 people not enough? Is there some lingering technical debt they're dealing with? Or is it just people accumulated over time they value too much to let go?