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When I was at Google, I was told over and over again that blind allocation was necessary because no other method of placing employees would scale to Google's si
by varelse 13y ago
When I was at Google, I was told over and over again that blind allocation was necessary because no other method of placing employees would scale to Google's size.
Whenever I pointed out that the bigger the company, the more teams there would be to absorb and place incoming employees, the googlers in question would just ignore the response and emphasize that blind allocation was necessary because no other method of placing employees would scale to Google's size.
Sigh...
- mikeash 13y agoI always love it when people make appeals to scale when they just don't apply. For it to work, there has to be some kind of non-linearity at play. In any circumstance where the total cost rises in proportion to the total size, it's just nonsensical.