Yeah, but didn't Uber do it because they were going for a huge headcount increase? They went from 50 engineers to 2000 in a year or so and they were facing all sorts of non tech issues such as shipping the org chart, engineer recruiting limitations (i.e. easier to recruit 2000 devs knowing any language than just 2000 Java devs), etc.

I don't think you can apply the lessons from a startup burning billions per year in many other places...