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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by ghaff on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:42AM (#34568527)
Exactly. You can obviously do things with a small team but, if you want to go beyond that, you start to accrete a lot of headcount that's to some degree just a function of having a larger organization that can't work on the basis of every knows everyone and what their role is.
Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by naijaboiler on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:52PM (#34571339)
It may take 2 people to do 100 units of work. To do 200, takes 10 people.