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Note that the average or median “quality” of employees isn’t really that relevant if you just need more employees to do more total work.

• wutbrodo 6y ago
  Eh, mythical man-month and all that. As always, the answer is somewhere in the middle, but I'd be surprised if most companies didn't see effects from median employee quality dropping.
  • baddox 6y ago
    That myth concerns adding more engineers to a project that is already started. Of course that doesn’t mean that 100 engineers can’t do more projects than 10 engineers.
    • wutbrodo 6y ago
      Of course, but AV parallelization is limited by the fact that you're all working on a single, tightly-interconnected system. The reality is somewhere in between "do more (fungible, separable) total work" and "dump engineers into a single project". Onboarding costs are substantial for a fast-growing AV company.