Re:New Relic CEO scolds employees in internal memo
by PragmaticPulp on Saturday July 04, 2020 @09:10PM
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> So I wouldn't disregard basecamps attitude as atypical because they are small. Small is normal.
New Relic (the company discussed in this article) is a publicly-traded company. I wasn’t dismissing Basecamp for being small, I was pointing our that what works for Basecamp’s 57 employees isn’t necessarily going to work for New Relic’s 2000 employees.
Re:New Relic CEO scolds employees in internal memo
by scarface74 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @09:26PM
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Stack Overflow’s survey is a self selected sample. If you are working in a large company doing enterprisey things in something like C# or Java and you are a “dark matter developer”, you probably aren’t hanging out on StackOverflow.
Also how many small companies are “lifestyle companies” and not small companies trying to grow fast and get acquired?
Re:New Relic CEO scolds employees in internal memo
by Barrin92 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:50PM
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I'm not sure lifestyle company is the right description. The overwhelming majority of companies are small businesses, privately owned. Think Qt. Or Datomic. The startup scene itself is only a tiny fraction of the global tech sector, it's a sort of business pretty much exclusive to a few cities around the world. All unicorns on the planet summed up are smaller than Apple in value.
Re:New Relic CEO scolds employees in internal memo
by scarface74 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:22AM
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That’s the usually definition of a lifestyle company. One that just wants to be a profitable privately held business with no interest in either going public or getting acquired.
yet there are also significantly more small companies than large companies in terms of employment. Looking at the last stackoverflow survey, half of all developers report to work companies with fewer than 100 employees, whereas only ~10-15% work at very large firms. The same is true for publicly traded business of course, it's a small minority of the market.
So I wouldn't disregard basecamps attitude as atypical because they are small. Small is normal.