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Because tech went through an enormous boom during Covid, and everyone was bottlenexked by headcount

• swellguy 4y ago
  Nope. Tech companies don't scale like that, especially Google Search or Youtube. Adding more people just makes things worse.
  • VirusNewbie 4y ago
    It depends. At a certain scale, strategically adding headcount can absolutely increase profit. It doesn't seem outrageous to think if a team of 20 engineers can improve efficiency by marginal percentage points for one component it can have enormous financial repercussions.
  • wutbrodo 4y ago
    I admittedly haven't been at Google for a long while, but they were headcount-constrained the entire time I was there.