4 ms·
I’ve often wondered the same thing about Airbnb, DoorDash, and other unicorns where they hire the best engineers from Silicon Valley, yet their product seems li
by TheKarateKid 6y ago
I’ve often wondered the same thing about Airbnb, DoorDash, and other unicorns where they hire the best engineers from Silicon Valley, yet their product seems like a rather basic CRUD tool.
Apparently with Uber it’s the infrastructure design and back-end algorithms for trip routing and driver management that are “so great.” The SV hype machine helps a lot too.
- treis 6y agoI doubt that the truly best engineers work there. But certainly at their scale you need really good ones at least. They also have a huge need for speed. Shipping faster and winning a market is worth 10s of million in annual revenue and billions in valuation. A lot of this is resume driven development as well. Solving a hard problem, even if it's an invented one, looks good on your resume. So does using the latest and greatest tech stack instead of a boring but functional one.
- marcinzm 6y agoJoe the Data Scientist says that if the app dynamically does X then that could be worth $10 million a year. Steve the product manager says his change could be worth $1 million a year. And so on and so on. Most are wrong, some are right. If you have a small team you'll never implement any of it so you won't know. If you throw people at it then you can test all those things. And when your company makes billions a quarter it doesn't take much of a revenue lift to pay for a few dozen teams.