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Usually companies just hire on people at that stage to show growth, so that they’ll get more money. Look at AirBnb - they don’t need thousands to operate their
by akmarinov 7y ago
Usually companies just hire on people at that stage to show growth, so that they’ll get more money.
Look at AirBnb - they don’t need thousands to operate their business, but they have them and they continue to hire
- ornornor 7y agoI wonder what they do all day. Sounds like it might be the ultimate retirement plan: get paid 150+k and not do much all day because there just isn’t that much work to go around.
- Erikun 7y agoProbably not, at least not if the generalized version of Parkinson’s law holds. The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If the price is zero).
- wilde 7y agoPossibly, but in my experience the less real work there is the more politics and thought leadership tends to crop up.
- ForHackernews 7y agoAirBnB at least seems to keep churning out loads and loads of perhaps marginally-useful open source software https://airbnb.io/projects/ https://airbnb.io/projects/ Maybe those engineers keep busy with these hobby projects, and then that makes for good PR to recruit more devs?
- xenospn 7y agoTPS reports, probably.
- dilyevsky 7y agoNot anymore they don’t
- cutemonster 7y agoAirbnb needs support staff? Thousands sounds ok to me
- bronson 7y agoNo they don’t: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365