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"growth" I'm starting to think that many companies seem to define "growth" in terms of headcount, rather than revenue or marketshare, and that they overhire ba
by Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
"growth"
I'm starting to think that many companies seem to define "growth" in terms of headcount, rather than revenue or marketshare, and that they overhire based on a perception of needing to grow the company whether they need the people or not.
- lbotos 4y agoI mean, if you can grow success without headcount, that's the dream, but sometimes growth means "investing in many different parallel opportunities" so you hire more people to do more in parallel.
- suzzer99 4y agoSometimes "success" means selling investors on a growth story. Hard to do that w/o headcount.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoBingo. Lyft is a mature product. Heck, they felt like a mature product when I used them for the first time five years ago. So why would they need to keep hiring engineers? What new features necessitated the hiring of additional teams?
- wpietri 4y agoI think it's not so much companies as executives. If we divide people up by skill/topic and reward managers for being in charge of many people, then they've got a strong incentive to focus on the growth of things that make them look important.