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Take what I say with another grain of salt, but I work at Amazon and have a large number of friends that moved over to the Alexa org. It's not a huge series of
by mabbo 8y ago
Take what I say with another grain of salt, but I work at Amazon and have a large number of friends that moved over to the Alexa org.
It's not a huge series of if statements. Maybe it was at one time, but 10k developers can do better than that.
- ams6110 8y agoI would be surprised if 10k developers could do much of anything. The communication overhead would be enormous.
- zwkrt 8y agoThere's a reason most really nice things are designed by one person.
- mabbo 8y agoAmazon is not a perfect company, but they have done a very good job at figuring out how to organize large scale software organizations. Emphasis on SOA whenever possible, teams that aren't too large, and principle engineers who focus on large scale organizational problems.