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When you have 8K employees that do nothing for years, you build up enough tech credit to spend it on a lot product features before having to worry about tech de
by idlewords 4y ago
When you have 8K employees that do nothing for years, you build up enough tech credit to spend it on a lot product features before having to worry about tech debt.
- jshorty 4y agoI don't understand this argument. If 8k employees were laying technical groundwork that can be transformed into product features more efficiently than greenfield work, how were they "doing nothing"? Twitter is a mature product used by millions, not every engineer is going to be shipping user-facing changes regularly.
- idlewords 4y agoThis was my snarky way of saying that the company was doing nothing to improve its core product while massively overstaffed.