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one good way to slow things down is to add more people
by readthenotes1 4y ago
one good way to slow things down is to add more people
- karamanolev 4y agoEspecially Perf(now GRAD)-evaluated people who care about promotions and performance reviews. Which is of course completely normal, not blaming the individual engineer here. Engineering directions just start taking weird turns that don't make that much sense globally, but locally they're the best course of action.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted for this. It's true. From what I could see, the Fuchsia team had basically unlimited headcount and blew up into an absolutely massive thing in a short period of time. They still missed deadline after deadline. Overall my experience at Google, esp in consumer hardware and things touching it, can be summarized as: Has a single person here read (or heard about) The Mythical Man Month?
- zbowling 4y agoThere is no part of this statement that is true. Fuchsia never had "unlimited headcount" (early on there was a buffer more than needed but our VP told use we couldn't hire too quickly as to not to overwhelm things and then later that buffer was taken away in reorgs when it was actually needed later which meant we had to do more with less). Fuchsia also never missed deadlines we made outside of the team. Any delays to market were not the fault of Fuchsia team itself but delays our internal partners needed.