You can fire 80% of software engineers and the company will survive

Re:You can fire 80% of software engineers and the company wi... by kaba0 on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:18AM (#33693489)

Let’s not compare all employees to devs. Twitter has (had) absolutely business critical other teams, they are a very human-facing company. Does whatsapp have to make decisions whether to ban/unban a former US president? Also, I think Twitter gets a much more uneven usage - their daily usage is lower, but peaks can be similar (~1 billion user).

Also, graph algorithm’s likely don’t scale linearly, 10 times more edges may have much much more resource usage.

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Re:You can fire 80% of software engineers and the company wi... by peoplefromibiza on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:47AM (#33704721)

> absolutely business critical other teams

So you're saying WhatsApp had no critical other teams, but Facebook bought them anyway for a record breaking sum of money at the time, because they looked nice on picture?

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Re:You can fire 80% of software engineers and the company wi... by kaba0 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:53AM (#33704758)

I don’t know, but I’m fairly sure that the user base is the most valuable part of a social network/messenger platform, not the tech stack, or the staff.

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