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Fifty design people? It's going to be at least an order of magnitude more. (To confirm, did a LinkedIn search for Product Designers at Uber. 521 results. Pr
by comp_throw7 6y ago
Fifty design people? It's going to be at least an order of magnitude more. (To confirm, did a LinkedIn search for Product Designers at Uber. 521 results. Pretty close!)
I work at tech company you've probably heard of (consumer-focused, international, relatively large scale, though probably a couple orders of magnitude smaller than Uber). We have ~200 engineers (client, backend, ops/infra, data eng, ML, etc). We have ~15-20 designers. We're international but we do very little feature and/or design customization per market, beyond localization, unlike Uber, which does customization even for different cities in the same state, let alone separate countries!
- rmk 6y agoGood heavens! What are 500 design people doing at Uber? Is this a case of managerial empire-building? I was at a small company of a comparable size to yours where the product was a mobile app (Apple and Android). It had fewer than ten (roughly 6) designers. This app was reasonably complicated (but, reading an account of Uber's struggles with controlling the size of it's app, nowhere close to Uber's apps' complexity) and was very important in the general scheme of things.
- mrxd 6y agoMost major tech companies have a 1:8 ratio of designers to developers.