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Re:Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful ... by coffeemug on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:11AM (#18003592)
It's more helpful to look at it as a social scientist. This is what can be empirically observed about the behavior of a large group of humans under these very specific conditions. It's not good or bad in the same sense that chemistry isn't good or bad. It just is, and can actually be quite fascinating if you look at it from that light!

It's also magical that given all this, everything still works! The products get shipped, the people get paid, the world benefits! Think of it this way -- human behavior is much weirded than one would naively expect, and we manage to self-organize to accomplish all this crazy stuff! Isn't that pretty cool?

Re:Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful ... by ericd on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:53AM (#18004981)
I'd say that it's also a big part of the reason so much of what get shipped is incredibly mediocre, though, and why small teams of dedicated people that manage to ship generally seem to ship the highest quality products.
Re:Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful ... by ido on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:12AM (#18005089)
I've first hand experienced teams of 4 people achieve higher output (both in quality and velocity) than teams of a dozen+.