1. I could see this for a services based company, like the old IBM Global Services, or one of the Big 5 consulting firms. I find it hard to understand how addi

1. I could see this for a services based company, like the old IBM Global Services, or one of the Big 5 consulting firms. I find it hard to understand how adding 1k devs for a product based company makes sense, but doesn't mean I am right. 2. On-boarding can be productized, I've done that a few times for companies where we were hiring rapidly and constantly. I learned this at GE where we worked hand in hand with HR to productize our on-boarding process where we could bring in groups of people and grow rapidly. At another company we had two "universities" one for new-grads one for industry experienced people. So groups of 20+ people would join every month into a "university" that lasted 14-60 days to train new hires on the company, industries serviced, processes etc. So you could easily do this and support 1000 hires in a year at one company. 3. No hard facts of course, but I'd imagine this is a non-issue overall, but maybe I am wrong. If you just said U.S. or EU, I'd think it would be harder.