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> If you want to be part of next future companies, where you can learn much more about the process of how company works and other information, start with smalle

> If you want to be part of next future companies, where you can learn much more about the process of how company works and other information, start with smaller high growth company. I think this is only true when the startup is really small, say, 5-20 people. I was once part of a startup that had ~100 developers and I hardly learned about its inner workings, was rarely part of any decision-making on business or customer-facing use cases etc.

provlem 8y ago
Not necessarily it has to be 5-20 people. it could be a team of 100-200 people too. But "~100 developers" that you mentioned, can not be small or mid-tech companies, until half or more than half of the developers are useless. 100 developers in one company have potential to built the next billion dollar product and literally change the world. As you can see, some one just mentioned, FB has 250 developers ( https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-work-at-Facebook/answer/St-Peter-6 https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-work-at-Fa... ) and some people do have mentioned they have approx 700, 900, or .... But, important factor is - they have only 25K employee (source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-facebook-employees/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...) across world. There are more than 80+ office of Facebook world wide (source: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/ https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/), so even if you distribute employee evenly on all places - you will have approx 300 employees - each location. My point is, if you were working in a company where 100 developers are creating product, than you were either at wrong place or judging the company wrong - one of them has to be true based on my research and opinion. I do not want to offend any one with my post, I am just pointing the fact based on my research, please leave a reply, If my research above is wrong or misleading.
- cemregr 8y ago
  It's absolutely not true that FB currently has 250 engineers. There were over 700 in 2012. The company has multiplied in size many times over since then. You linked to an answer with no source. Here's a revant post from the FB blog: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/ship-early-and-ship-twice-as-often/10150985860363920/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/ship-ear...
warcher 8y ago
The critical issue there is where you are on the totem pole. 100 engineers as an engineer? Probably not gonna make a big dent unless you’re really good and on the right project (tricky, uncertain). But, a fresh exec or management track engineer? You could make a difference and climb the ladder. It depends on where you are. Different folks need different opportunities.

provlem 8y ago

Not necessarily it has to be 5-20 people. it could be a team of 100-200 people too. But "~100 developers" that you mentioned, can not be small or mid-tech companies, until half or more than half of the developers are useless. 100 developers in one company have potential to built the next billion dollar product and literally change the world. As you can see, some one just mentioned, FB has 250 developers ( https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-work-at-Facebook/answer/St-Peter-6 https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-work-at-Fa... ) and some people do have mentioned they have approx 700, 900, or .... But, important factor is - they have only 25K employee (source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-facebook-employees/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...) across world. There are more than 80+ office of Facebook world wide (source: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/ https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/), so even if you distribute employee evenly on all places - you will have approx 300 employees - each location. My point is, if you were working in a company where 100 developers are creating product, than you were either at wrong place or judging the company wrong - one of them has to be true based on my research and opinion. I do not want to offend any one with my post, I am just pointing the fact based on my research, please leave a reply, If my research above is wrong or misleading.

cemregr 8y ago
It's absolutely not true that FB currently has 250 engineers. There were over 700 in 2012. The company has multiplied in size many times over since then. You linked to an answer with no source. Here's a revant post from the FB blog: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/ship-early-and-ship-twice-as-often/10150985860363920/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/ship-ear...

warcher 8y ago

The critical issue there is where you are on the totem pole. 100 engineers as an engineer? Probably not gonna make a big dent unless you’re really good and on the right project (tricky, uncertain). But, a fresh exec or management track engineer? You could make a difference and climb the ladder. It depends on where you are. Different folks need different opportunities.