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> justifying the salary of middle managers. That's just ridiculous if you think this applies to all projects. We have incredible amount legal, tax, sanction et

> justifying the salary of middle managers. That's just ridiculous if you think this applies to all projects. We have incredible amount legal, tax, sanction etc in the code. Have you seen how complex real world financial and legal system can be, do you know how much work to translate those into code? And keeps updating it? And to just to interface with other financial system worldwide, we have to keep the old system in place, at same time upgrade as the industry move forward. It's a also a big challenge. Despite the above and we had to ship fast, we are actually still SHORT on people. Our engineer to manager ratio is also high. The world is a complex place, sometimes you just have to deal with it. Again, why do you think 50 man team applies to all projects? What is it so hard to believe that some complexity cannot be reduced? > We also know Facebook's 70k employees are there so that many of them won't end up working somewhere else and help the competition You get this from the TV show. Have you actually worked in the companies at Meta caliber? Do you really think most faang employees just do nothing everyday?

peoplefromibiza 3y ago
> Have you actually worked in the companies at Meta caliber you're taking it personally. I work for a > 30k employees company, not based in the US. All I'm saying is companies optimize for what's better for them, so at some point you'll have on payroll thousands of people you don't need for your core business because they solve a lot of non-core functions. such as dealing with authorities or devise a strategy to reduce the pool of talents competition can pick from. HR, accounting and legal departments will also increase in size a lot consequentially. so their massive size doesn't says much about the complexity of the tech problem they are solving. the fact that Discord runs on Elixir at that scale is remarkable, regardless of how many people work at Discord.

peoplefromibiza 3y ago

> Have you actually worked in the companies at Meta caliber you're taking it personally. I work for a > 30k employees company, not based in the US. All I'm saying is companies optimize for what's better for them, so at some point you'll have on payroll thousands of people you don't need for your core business because they solve a lot of non-core functions. such as dealing with authorities or devise a strategy to reduce the pool of talents competition can pick from. HR, accounting and legal departments will also increase in size a lot consequentially. so their massive size doesn't says much about the complexity of the tech problem they are solving. the fact that Discord runs on Elixir at that scale is remarkable, regardless of how many people work at Discord.