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Everyone who writes code at Facebook has "uncommonly large responsibilities"? Really? How does that work?
by dhugiaskmak 14y ago
Everyone who writes code at Facebook has "uncommonly large responsibilities"? Really? How does that work?
- pbreit 14y agoAddressing both replies: Facebook continues to have perhaps the highest ratio of users (choose a metric if you wish) to engineers, quite possibly by a large margin. I believe that's a good proxy for responsibility.
- furyofantares 14y agoreddit, pinterest, and craigslist come to mind as probably having a higher ratio. Instagram too, before Facebook bought them. Edit: And OMGPOP before Zynga bought them.
- pbreit 14y agoAll attractive places to work but not sure any have higher ratios (except Craigslist perhaps, which has its own peculiarities).
- furyofantares 14y agoI believe all those companies are above 1M users per engineer, my estimation for FB was just under that. Is my estimate for FB way off?
- pbreit 14y agoThe most recent estimate I saw was 1.3m users/engineer and steadily climbing. And if we take active users, the gap is even greater. And none of those other companies would enable an engineer's work to get in front of 100s of millons of users.
- furyofantares 14y agoWith 900m users, a ratio of 1.3m user/engineer would mean only 692 of their 3500 employees are engineers. That seems low to me. I'm also having a hard time imagining their ratio is growing, their monthly percentage growth has been steadily slowing down, I doubt their hiring has been slowing even further.