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In a recent Tweet reply, Elon says that there are 10 people managing for 1 person coding. Based on my experience in a 2nd tier SV company I believe this to be
by sam_lowry_ 4y ago
In a recent Tweet reply, Elon says that there are 10 people managing for 1 person coding.
Based on my experience in a 2nd tier SV company I believe this to be true
- LightG 4y ago
- UncleMeat 4y agoSo it sounds like exactly zero people who have committed code recently will be fired, right?
- jesuscript 4y agoDepends on how Caligula feels next week.
- boc 4y agoRight but the people who bring in the money (advertising sales) probably got axed because they don’t write code.
- sam_lowry_ 4y agoRightfully so, because 8€/month for blue stamp needs neither.
- Macha 4y agoAs I saw pointed out elsewhere, with a headcount of only engineers and these alleged 10 managers per engineers, this would leave twitter with like 630 engineers and 6300 managers which is a clearly a drastic underestimation of the number of engineers and that's before you count roles like sales, support, etc. Don't take everything Elon tweets at face value
- talaketu 4y agohttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586686935518498816 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586686935518498816 > There seem to be 10 people "managing" for every one person coding Take this literally, not as as a ration. - each SWE in a product team has an EM, Dir Eng, VP Eng, PM, Director Product, VP Product, ...
- Macha 4y agoSure, but that team may have N engineers and those VPs may have N teams, so that doesn't seem so ludicrous for a 7000 person company. Or even 3500 person company by EOD. Certainly in my company there's about a 200:1 engineer:VP engineering ratio, so pointing out every engineer reports to a VP is kind of a meaningless statement
- ghaff 4y agoAnd there are also finance people, HR people, sales, etc. people. The company is far from entirely engineers, their managers, and the managers of their managers.
- cjrp 4y agoSo there's overlap between every developer
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- sam_lowry_ 4y ago630 coders is quite a lot for what Twitter does. They do not own datacenters, AFAIK.