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This comment is a gem. Every HNer who has thought 'why do they need 100 engineers, I could do that in a weekend' should go read this now.
by jrvarela56 4y ago
This comment is a gem. Every HNer who has thought 'why do they need 100 engineers, I could do that in a weekend' should go read this now.
- criddell 4y ago> why do they need 100 engineers You're off by an order of magnitude. Hundreds of developers? Sure. But Uber has thousands of developers.
- jrvarela56 4y agoI think the point stands: the amount of complexity involved in each little piece of app is huge when taking into account dozens of countries and customizations by city. If it still doesn't seem worthy of 'thousands of engs', imagine breaking down every point in the list to the level of detail the author broke down payments. And then apply the logic in the top comment mentioning backend systems + teams to support other processes (and internal tools needed). Edit: sorry too much caffeine got me edgy.