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I've been at startups where we experienced 90% engineering turnover over 12 mo. due to M&A or change of leadership. We got by. I'm sure Fb could cope.
by coward8675309 6y ago
I've been at startups where we experienced 90% engineering turnover over 12 mo. due to M&A or change of leadership. We got by. I'm sure Fb could cope.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoHaving spent a lot of time listening to FB employees rant about the lack of documentation and the amount of information sitting in random employees heads, I'm not sure they would. For instance, all the ads leads who understand the core C++ code leave - how do they fix bugs?
- iaw 6y agoI've worked at a startup and a very large company that grew from a startup. The former could survive, the latter most definitely would not (or at least not in the highly profitable form it existed).
- rednerrus 6y agoI've been involved in these and it's a nightmare.
- coward8675309 6y agoYes. Most of my grey hair has come from those months that my job was mostly sorting through the rubble.
- cjaybo 6y agoAren't the dynamics of this type of turnover very different depending on the size of the company? It seems entirely unsurprising to me that a startup would fare better than a company that has been around for over a decade when trying to replace a significant chunk of its developers.