I left Facebook in March after having worked there for seven years. It was always a struggle to hire enough engineers to accomplish my team's goals, and it onl

I left Facebook in March after having worked there for seven years. It was always a struggle to hire enough engineers to accomplish my team's goals, and it only got worse as time went on. We didn't have a terrible on-call or terrible team morale, we just tended to lose out to teams working on more visible projects. We could have doubled our headcount and still had a backlog of impactful work we couldn't get to.