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How does something like this scale for more than 10 people? 100? 1000?
by nvartolomei 2y ago
How does something like this scale for more than 10 people? 100? 1000?
- awesome_dude 2y agoThis is the problem all medium to large businesses face - red tape, faceless bureaucracy overloads the system Every. Damned. Time.
- aylmao 2y agofwiw, Etsy seems to have ~2.5k employees [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy
- jakevoytko 2y agoI was at Etsy after Dan left, and I think it scaled pretty well from the few hundred engineers when I joined to closer to 1000 when I left. Etsy's engineering culture had a lot of problems, but they weren't caused by empowering people. If anything, being encouraged to work cross-functionally built a lot of empathy and understanding for different roles and hats in the org, and made a lot of engineers a lot more effective. There were some annoying parts of the ultra-permissive culture. Sometimes you'd need to literally beg people to stop YOLO-committing code into your UI component because they're not checking how it looks with your flag enabled and they're breaking your A/B test over and over and you just lost a week because you need to restart it. But we gained more than we ever lost.