That's a generalisation and I don't think it works. Many companies run a lean engineering team that makes sense for their product. Twitter didn't and I really t

That's a generalisation and I don't think it works. Many companies run a lean engineering team that makes sense for their product. Twitter didn't and I really truly don't believe they needed as many as they had to work on their product. I know, from talking to someone who left just before the buy out that they just had too many people working on too many things that never even saw the light of day. Hire to work on your core product and for specific purpose. Don't let managers hire willy nilly to grow their fiefdom.