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If two engineers leaving means that much trouble for a company the size of Facebook, the project was already in trouble.
by kortilla 5y ago
If two engineers leaving means that much trouble for a company the size of Facebook, the project was already in trouble.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- sp332 5y agoIt's not trouble for the company. It's trouble for the project.
- yaacov 5y agoMythical man month
- rhizome 5y agoKey-person risk
- themodelplumber 5y agoCoastline paradox
- TeMPOraL 5y agoReverse bus-factor polymerase.
- rlt 5y ago“Big companies should act more like startups!” “Wait no, big companies should have redundant employees!”
- BobbyJo 5y ago"Acting like a startup" means being hyper focused on a single use case with capital efficiency in mind. Proving, or disproving, the value of that use case. Then, based on information gathered in that process, repeat the cycle. It's about being efficient in the conversion of capital to value, not about how many people you put on the project.
- Ozzie_osman 5y agoIt's probably more the signal than anything else. They sound like really talented engineers, but presumably Facebook has a lot of other really talented engineers. It's the signal of "top engineers are willing to walk away" being a proxy for bigger problems.
- derac 5y agoPeople aren't interchangable parts. They have specializations and deep domain knowledge.