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> It's really sad that in 2020, 10k+ engineers can't make a photo, video, post and message sharing website that is not a pain to use. Too many cooks spoil the
by lawn 7y ago
> It's really sad that in 2020, 10k+ engineers can't make a photo, video, post and message sharing website that is not a pain to use.
Too many cooks spoil the stew.
I might even go so far to say that 10 engineers would have a larger chance of success than 10k+ engineers.
- Impossible 7y agoThis was my experience at Facebook. Attempting things with a small team (or heaven forbid by yourself) was heavily frowned upon because it didn't justify manager and director salaries. As a result you ended up with poorly performing over-engineered code bases that prefered complex, expensive systems that would take multiple teams to build, but for whatever reason complexity that would improve performance was frowned upon. I'm sure this is common at many big tech companies. I didn't work on the mainline FB app but it seemed like part of the culture.
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoWhen were you there, if you don't mind me asking?