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It always surprise me why startups want to grow in amount of people. I see this picture quite often. There is a small team that managed to create a great prod
by vasergen 5y ago
It always surprise me why startups want to grow in amount of people.
I see this picture quite often.
There is a small team that managed to create a great product. Then they get investmens, grow in size, hired a few starts that worked before in FAANG like companies and now trying to adopt microservices. The initial team spirit is gone, people who worked there from the leaving
- cosmodisk 5y agoSometimes it's done for smoke and mirrors more than anything else. There's suddenly a ton of money pushing in your door,so people decide to start adding random titles to the payroll,even though it's probably still those 5-10 guys that making it all tick.
- marcinzm 5y agoBecause they need to grow users and build a moat against competitors. If your product was made in 6 months by 5 engineers then a competitor can (and will) do the same. Users will generally want new features or capabilities or other such things. Boring but time consuming work not matter how well engineered your product is. This type of work is very different from a green field new product so it'd be odd if many people didn't leave during the shift.