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makes you wonder, what exactly the headcount is going to. Double the headcount, but sure doesn't feel like double the innovation/product-growth.

• UncleMeat 4y ago
  It's also wild internally. It feels like headcount is incredibly tight, and even tighter now. Like 20% of my time as a manager is spent being asked to propose large new projects only to be told "nope, no HC for that." But somehow the company is like 4x larger than it as when I joined.
  • mkmk3 4y ago
    Wow, really? So where is it all going?
    • UncleMeat 4y ago
      I suspect it is a property of subexponential growth. If every team gets new HC then the entire company grows at ridiculous pace. But it does feel disempowering to see the company grow like mad while we are told "not you."
• spaceman_2020 4y ago
  Honestly as an end user, the growth seems to be backwards. Search results are worse than ever, YouTube recommendations are broken, and for the first time in years, Google Maps is showing me weird as hell routes.