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This is sort-of hand-wavey. The truth is there are many companies with order-of-magnitude too-many employees (and software eats them). And there's some that are
by zug_zug 6y ago
This is sort-of hand-wavey. The truth is there are many companies with order-of-magnitude too-many employees (and software eats them). And there's some that aren't.
There's no way to know which one uber is without exactly breaking down those numbers a bit more. But call me unconvinced for one.
- kitsunesoba 6y agoI don't have the experience to back my opinion, but my gut agrees. Intuitively, it would seem to me that hiring past a certain threshold increases need to hire more engineers rather than quenching it — that is, the complexity resulting from changes made to the projects to keep such a high number of engineers productive approaches or even outstrips innate complexity and becomes unsustainable, demanding ever more engineers to keep it all afloat. Following this, a company that isn't keeping an eye out for net productive decreases as a result of hiring could end up with far more engineers than they actually need. But I've always been an individual contributor, so my perspective may be limited.