Maybe some companies prefer 100 mediocre employees working together in perfect harmony over just a few superstars. The problem this article doesn't address is

Maybe some companies prefer 100 mediocre employees working together in perfect harmony over just a few superstars. The problem this article doesn't address is that it is REALLY HARD to get 100 programmers (or workers in any profession really) to work in perfect harmony towards a goal. The underlying problem is that engineering doesn't scale well. If you already have 10,000 engineers, hiring another 10,000 will not make you twice as productive, but hiring a handful of very good programmers might. I do agree however that some talent acquisitions are more outrageous than others. As a startup I'd prefer having 100 mediocre programmers instead of only one superstar, but it is harder to get 100 mediocre people to work in perfect harmony than to pay a superstar millions of dollars. More people introduce more overhead and are likely not to work together in perfect harmony. One person works