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Few years ago, recruiter at a very well known retailer was on phone with me for a Python backend role. I asked him how many people were on my team that I'm goin
by wg0 6mo ago
Few years ago, recruiter at a very well known retailer was on phone with me for a Python backend role. I asked him how many people were on my team that I'm going to join.
He told me some 80 developers. Bit surprised and thinking probably recruiter is too noob and quoting me the size of the development team, I asked him again that no, I'm interested in knowing my team size.
He instead corrected me saying that he's not talking about whole engineering team, he's talking about the pricing team that is a sub team inside the data science team and I'll be joining the pricing team that alone has 80 developers.
- shimman 6mo agoModern corporations aren't profitable because of sound business decisions, they're profitable because of corporate welfare + federal subsidies. Not shocked to hear such numbers. I worked at an insurance company that had very similar numbers. Went as well as you suspect.
- fuzzfactor 6mo ago>Modern corporations aren't profitable because of sound business decisions One of the things to think about is the way that lots of average businessmen have always been able to rake in the bucks without resorting to any type of predatory approaches coming anything close to this. Probably more so in less-modern times, like before MBA's had yet made significant impact. And some of these were much rougher times economically. The contrast can be so dramatic that there's a major logical conclusion about operators who run their businesses this way now. They're just plain below-average businessmen.