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Using headcount seems like the wrong thing to measure. But, it seems like maybe there’s a method to the madness? If you reward growing the pie then you avoid na
by tippytippytango 3y ago
Using headcount seems like the wrong thing to measure. But, it seems like maybe there’s a method to the madness? If you reward growing the pie then you avoid nastier politics like Wall Street firms might have. It’s a luxury that big tech has been able to afford. Now that they can’t afford this anymore I wonder if we see the relatively friendly tech cultures turn into a more brutal survival of the fittest. Seems like the good times are really coming to an end.
- vineyardmike 3y ago> relatively friendly tech cultures turn into a more brutal survival of the fittest The problem is that often you have to collaborate a lot in these companies - you need to use services or libraries written by another team, for example. "Fittest" really makes no sense, because almost no one has a PnL sheet broken out by team like wall street. That said, not all companies (Apple, Amazon) had super friendly cultures. If you maintain a core service at amazon, for example, you can expect to constantly have every dependents' roadmap shoved at you all year as it is.