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I get the opposite impression. Stale software organisations with steady operating products seem to use massive headcounts, whereas startups building new product
by spacebanana7 1y ago
I get the opposite impression. Stale software organisations with steady operating products seem to use massive headcounts, whereas startups building new products often get by with relatively few people.
- esseph 1y agoStartups don't have to run a software stack for decades, hardware refreshes or SKU updates and replatforms, dealing with multiple types of turnover and reogs, knowledge transfer, etc. Plus at least monthly if not daily, even hourly system patching. Planting a garden is one thing. Weeding it is another.
- donnachangstein 1y ago> whereas startups building new products often get by with relatively few people 90% of startups fail within 5 years so probably not the best example of how to run things. The few that do "succeed" often carry over mountains of cruft and garbage code into perpetuity (for example Reddit).