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I feel a little bit sorry for the Zoom devs. All of a sudden there are a _lot_ of eyes on Zoom. Every design decision and mistake are under a big microscope,
by Twirrim 7y ago
I feel a little bit sorry for the Zoom devs. All of a sudden there are a _lot_ of eyes on Zoom. Every design decision and mistake are under a big microscope, while also presumably having to deal with some major scaling.
- tpmx 7y agoIt's a ~2k person company with a market cap of $34B. So the valuation is $17M per employee. I don't feel sorry for them. Also: this crisis is giving them vast amounts of marketing for free. I'm based in Sweden. I was just vaguely aware of Zoom until a few days ago - now I suddenly hear of them all of the time from Late Night hosts on Youtube.
- Twirrim 7y agoThe developers are still people. Doesn't matter the size of the company, it's still a bunch of individuals who are likely suddenly dealing with a lot of stress and pressure that could never have been predicted, or have opportunity to scale up their engineering to meet.
- obmelvin 7y agoI'm sure there are plenty of people who would be delighted to be in that situation. At the end of the day Zoom is looking to stay a run-away success - assuming eng is being compensated appropriately it's really one of the best problems one could have in a job.
- tpmx 7y agoYeah.. no. Only on HN could these winners become "victims".
- jeffhuys 7y ago> Only on HN could these winners become "victims". Maybe because the users on here have an unique perspective on developers / development?
- pubkraal 7y agoI'd argue that if you're writing malicious privilege trampolines for operating systems, you could have very well predicted this would pop up and you get stressed out for it.