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The truly interesting challenge will be how effectively they transition these policies as they scale. For example, the flood-of-email with filters works incredi
by xianshou 14y ago
The truly interesting challenge will be how effectively they transition these policies as they scale. For example, the flood-of-email with filters works incredibly well for transparency at 40 people, but becomes an unmanageable deluge much past 100. The Capture the Flag runs, though, look like an idea that's both awesome and sustainable.
- pc 14y agoYeah, we're pretty sure that what we do will require extensive tweaking as we scale. We did a bunch of things at 5 people that haven't scaled to 30. I'm optimistic the properties that we care most about can scale with us, though, even if the mechanism by which we accomplish them changes.
- kanzure 14y agoWhat did you do at 5 people?
- nostrademons 14y agoFWIW, Google also does the flood-of-email with filters thing, and it still works at 30,000 employees. People don't subscribe to every single mailing list anymore, but most e-mails are CC'd to at least a team mailing list, as are (usually) every code review and every bug. I get about 300 emails a day, several of which are mailing list digests with 25 emails apiece. I actually skim them all; I'm one of two people I know who doesn't use filters, and I think the other one gave up recently. For someone who's an informationavore like me, though, it's paradise, and a great way of keeping up the illusion of knowing everything.
- robryan 14y agoIt is probably good to have someone in this role, if everyone were doing it it would probably be a productivity drain. But as the only one doing it you may be able to spot issues that no one else has the same total oversight to catch.