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Interesting that the messenger team is ~40 people, as compared to WhatsApp having 32 engineers at the time of their sale to FB.
by secabeen 8y ago
Interesting that the messenger team is ~40 people, as compared to WhatsApp having 32 engineers at the time of their sale to FB.
- traek 8y agoThe photo caption says that's just the infrastructure team. I'd imagine the product team is much larger given how many features are crammed into Messenger.
- adtac 8y agoI wish it was the other way around. We'd have fewer, but faster features.
- marksomnian 8y agoSeems like Messenger is getting WeChat-ized - in China, WeChat [0] is your one-stop shop to getting anything done - chatting, following celebrities, booking housekeeping, payments, even "mini-programs". And now many Western messaging apps are starting to take inspiration from this [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat [1]: https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/
- markkanof 8y agoIs it working though? Just because Facebook keeps adding features doesn’t necassarily mean that people are using those features at the same scale as WeChat. I avoid Facebook messenger entirely, but are others using it for all these ancillary things like sending friends money?
- fwn 8y agoMy (non-technical) friends & family, as anecdotal evidence, seem almost universally happy about switching to Facebooks Lite Messenger. (An app that only provides messaging functionality.) They perceive it as less confusing.
- pbalau 8y agoAfaik the real team name is Messenger Foundation. FB has the concept of foundation teams, with the only goal of keeping a part of the service working no mater what. /edit: been informed by some of the people in the picture that technically there are 2 teams there: Messenger Infra and Messenger Foundation
- midom 8y agoI can see some MySQL Infrastructure people in it :-)