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> Very large engineering organizations like Facebook, Netflix, etc. > If you're at a mega-corp with a huge engineering staff: Netflix is an odd choice for num
by bradleyjg 7y ago
> Very large engineering organizations like Facebook, Netflix, etc.
> If you're at a mega-corp with a huge engineering staff:
Netflix is an odd choice for number two on a list of two. I’d guess it has an order of magnitude fewer engineers than Facebook.
So what’s the rough cutoff here? 1000 software engineers?
- alexhutcheson 7y agoI chose it as an example of a company that is unusually resource-intensive (in compute, network usage, storage, etc.) for how many engineers they have, so it can make sense to spend engineering more engineering resources on infrastructure than other similarly-sized orgs.
- yibg 7y agoOf the FAANG companies i think Netflix builds the least of their own stuff. Still a lot more than smaller companies do and should but they tend to only build their own if there isn’t something suitable out there.