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Wow. Is the software that complex that it takes 10k employees to work with it?!! :)

• testplzignore 8y ago
  Me: That's a pretty complex thing to build. I'm guessing it'll take about 12 months. Management: Great! We'll hire 10000 people and have it done before lunch! Me: ...
• gdulli 8y ago
  There's a force that makes big companies grow bigger to the extent that their success allows them to, not to the extent that it's needed.
• stuart_marshall 8y ago
  Software and organizations are always much more complicated than you would realize as an outsider. Most of those 10k employees are probably not software engineers. Businesses have many other functions. From a software standpoint, any system that support 100M clients with rich functionality is going to be shockingly complex.