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Only need about 20% of the engineers are dedicated to keeping services running in any tech company. The other 80% are focused on new product features, growing
by random314 4y ago
Only need about 20% of the engineers are dedicated to keeping services running in any tech company.
The other 80% are focused on new product features, growing revenue, growing engagement, growing new user signups, l blocking bad actors and legal compliance.
- csande17 4y agoHaving worked in a "growing engagement" role at a big company, I'd say it's more accurate to describe it as "running no-op experiments over and over until the A/B testing tool tells you one had a 'statistically significant' result". It seemed to me like the exact kind of make-work Musk fans criticize. Axing all of those roles could make it easier to ship valuable user-visible features, since the remaining engineers wouldn't have to work around feature flags for fifty ongoing experiments.
- random314 4y agoLet's not project your role at Company X onto Twitter. Especially, given that neither of us have worked at Twitter X.0
- zpeti 4y agoDefinitely doesn’t seem like that other 80% did a lot of that at Twitter.
- random314 4y agoDefinitely doesn't seem like you have any data points at all to make a judgement, apart from the revenue collapse of 40%.