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Re:6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup by rightbyte on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:14AM (#30384034)
> even at places like google/amazon/facebook/etc

Even? Those places are probably the worst in that regard. The amount of support programmers for the core is enormous.

Facebook has what, 20 000 developers?

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Re:6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup by tonyedgecombe on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:45AM (#30384209)
I guess that's how you end up with an iPhone app with 18,000 classes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066518

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Re:6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup by ido on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:55AM (#30385122)
I mean in the sense that people assume they are doing hard stuff compared to your run-of-the-mill Java EE/.net companies servicing "boring" computing needs of industries like insurance/banking/logistics/etc (which outside of silicon valley is where most - or at least a lot of - software jobs are at).
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