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> Despite working in big/small orgs I always reacted with massive surprise whenever a team/company said they have X employees, X being an order of magnitude hig
by rightbyte 3y ago
> Despite working in big/small orgs I always reacted with massive surprise whenever a team/company said they have X employees, X being an order of magnitude higher than what I expected.
Ye it is silly since I too never seem to stop being surprised. The programmer bloat is insane. And ye I know everyone need 50 programmers for Antarctica fishing law compliance.
I work at a machine industry company now, and programmer RnD is probably just twice as many as "needed". You probably want about that to have any chance of keeping continuance.
The prior automotive company I worked for suddenly increased my department of programmers like 5 fold, forced Agile processes etc, for no reason at all with less output due to programming being the future etc.
The programmer market have to be a bubble? Programmers in the 90s seemed to have been about 5 to 10 times more efficient (as measured by headcount), than nowadays.
- __loam 3y agoPrograms were a lot simpler, and probably a lot less secure, in the 90s. A lot fewer distributed systems.
- rightbyte 3y agoYes. Architectural bloat is probably an underlying cause. I remember this joke chain mail about C++ being a job creation scheme by Strausrup (his name is impossible to spell correctly ...). Modern distributed apps certainly are, in most cases. Security is only a problem if you expose your app to the webs, in the first place.