Re:Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
by ggreenbe on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:09AM
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It's more than 50... I mean just look at the number of API endpoints across multiple APIs both internal and external. It's easily hundreds then add sys ops, dev ops, dev content writing (docs/guides), frontend, design, pm, support, etc.
I feel like most of you all are unaware of the complexity and scope of Shopify...
Re:Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
by jokethrowaway on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:21AM
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I've seen companies where a team was managing 10 services and companies where a team was managing one endpoint
The former had some stressed principal engineers, the latter was terribly inefficient and people had 1% productivity.
There is a happy medium, but nobody can manage a large headcounts without splitting in a lot of tiny products.
The core product of shopify is not something that needs 10k engineers for maintenance, even if they can afford that.
Re:Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
by woofcat on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:08AM
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On a large chunk of Enterprise Software you'd have teams of people working on specific features / subsets of a larger product.
I.e. a team that is working on only Facebook Messenger back-end, a team working on Facebook Messenger Front-end, a team working on Friend Recommendation, etc.
Each of these teams is let's say 10 Dev, 2-4 QA, 1 Product Documentation, then all the normal overhead of HR, etc.
Let's say that each product dev team is about 80 engineers. Let's double that number for support, HR, admin, etc. Let's add a team of 10 people for sales ( not needed for internal products but hey)
Now let's round it up to 200 heads.
That would make 50 large software products, is that right?