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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by scarface74 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:34AM (#34568457)
How many useless projects does Google already waste money on? Google has already shown a complete ineptitude at coming out with new profit generating products. Throwing more people at problem with a broken culture won’t do any good.
Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by vidarh on Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:58AM (#34570020)
That is an argument that they've reached a point where the cost of increasing engineering headcount is as high or higher than the return, not that you don't want to keep increasing headcount until you get there.