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I agree with your sentiment and I think you would agree with this, just wanted to get it out there. I've seen teams of 10-15 people that do absolutely nothing.

by robswc 4y ago

I agree with your sentiment and I think you would agree with this, just wanted to get it out there. I've seen teams of 10-15 people that do absolutely nothing. Have 10 meetings about specs but space them out over a year, so that by the time the next meeting happens, everyone forgets the entire context of the project... so you have to cover everything again. By the end of year, its gone absolutely no where due to 2-3 layers of bureaucracy. Coinbase _can_ hire good talent... wonder if managing it is the/a problem.

vgatherps 4y ago
> Coinbase _can_ hire good talent... wonder if managing it is the/a problem. I've worked at a company where at an individual level people were quite talented, moreso than competitors who did better than them .... but getting anything done required Y different meetings with X different teams, satisfying N different gatekeepers who just want to push their own product on you, avoid stepping on the toes of persons X,Y,Z, etc etc. Company multiplied in size a few times over the course of a few years and had just no idea how to handle it.
yamtaddle 4y ago
I've seen a large non-tech company (you probably know them) increase dev time by like 50% (plus increase defect rates) across several projects because someone inside had built an identity as "the [niche database] guy" and successfully sold [niche database] to the org (with the help of [niche database]'s marketing material) as the solution for all problems, when it was actually a pretty terrible fit for almost everything they were doing. This dude cost them millions, for no benefit whatsoever, by causing morale-crushing slowdowns on every project. It was crazy. Wouldn't be surprised if he's running the tech-side of that whole place by now, either. They seemed to love the guy.

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I agree with your sentiment and I think you would agree with this, just wanted to get it out there. I've seen teams of 10-15 people that do absolutely nothing.

by robswc 4y ago

vgatherps 4y ago
> Coinbase _can_ hire good talent... wonder if managing it is the/a problem. I've worked at a company where at an individual level people were quite talented, moreso than competitors who did better than them .... but getting anything done required Y different meetings with X different teams, satisfying N different gatekeepers who just want to push their own product on you, avoid stepping on the toes of persons X,Y,Z, etc etc. Company multiplied in size a few times over the course of a few years and had just no idea how to handle it.
yamtaddle 4y ago
I've seen a large non-tech company (you probably know them) increase dev time by like 50% (plus increase defect rates) across several projects because someone inside had built an identity as "the [niche database] guy" and successfully sold [niche database] to the org (with the help of [niche database]'s marketing material) as the solution for all problems, when it was actually a pretty terrible fit for almost everything they were doing. This dude cost them millions, for no benefit whatsoever, by causing morale-crushing slowdowns on every project. It was crazy. Wouldn't be surprised if he's running the tech-side of that whole place by now, either. They seemed to love the guy.