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I work for a company that does kinda similar software stuff for vehicles - Uber has about two orders of magnitude more drivers than my company, but about three
by Marsymars 7y ago
I work for a company that does kinda similar software stuff for vehicles - Uber has about two orders of magnitude more drivers than my company, but about three orders of magnitude more engineers - it's almost like they've got diseconomies of scale.
- dangus 7y agoTwo orders of magnitude are a lot of orders of magnitude. It could be the difference between using really easy off-the-shelf solutions to having to architect your own technology to solve scaling issues like Google has.
- Marsymars 7y agoYeah, two orders of magnitude are a lot. So are three orders of magnitude. ;)
- fardin1368 7y agoand how many countries and markets does your company operate in? Products do not just magically scale to 80+ countries.
- Marsymars 7y agoUber operates in many more countries than us. Enough to necessitate ten times more engineers per driver? I can't really say without more insight into what they're doing.