> An effective 15 person team can outperform a 150 person team Which is subtly different than saying a 15 person team can do the same job as a 150 person team.

> An effective 15 person team can outperform a 150 person team Which is subtly different than saying a 15 person team can do the same job as a 150 person team. The full story is the first 15 people (be they developer or project managers) will determine whether you need 150 people in the future. Naturally, all of my jobs have been at 150 companies (since that's where most of the jobs are), places where the earlier developers and PMs have balloon the amount of work to be done is a very unhealthy and inefficient way. Then I'm hired and continue to do the same. I learned about R0 ("r not") in the pandemic, the number of other people someone infects on average, and I've imagined a "W0" at my jobs. How much work does a developer, on average, add or remove from the future of the company? Unfortunately, I believe I am a >1 W0 developer in my current job, my current work will only create more work in the future, and the company will have to hire more and more developers forever. I don't consider this my fault, but the fault of project management. It's also why I'm not worry about future job security.