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While it's a topic about twitter I'd like to ask a question that always puzzles me. Twitter has 3900+ employees and good portion of those are developers, I just
by usaphp 10y ago
While it's a topic about twitter I'd like to ask a question that always puzzles me. Twitter has 3900+ employees and good portion of those are developers, I just don't understand how can such a basic product that almost never pushes any updates or radical changes/improvements require so many employees. What the hell are they doing except for burning investors cash? Just curious...
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- djfm 10y agoIt's probably harder than we think because of the scale of it.
- markcerqueira 10y agoYeah, but that only really applies to specific engineering teams like backend services and ops right? Web (frontend), iOS, Android, etc. don't really care about scale.
- was_boring 10y agoSeriously. The amount of people on the android team can't be more than 5 people devs, right? Maybe allocate 10 so you have some redundancy when people get sick.
- sulam 10y agoAlso a surprising fraction goes to data science and advertising infrastructure. Stuff that would go away if they weren't worried about making money. :)
- zcam 10y agoWhatsapp is a good counter example.
- RBerenguel 10y agoone-one or one-few is not the same as one-many, scale-wise.
- whywhywhywhy 10y agoSomeone will reply to this reeling off things like bootstrap etc as if they actually matter and justify the millions in high expense developers