Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by poszlem on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:47PM
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And that is exactly how the scope increases.
Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:52PM
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The problem is not that companies or products increase their scope. Most companies do need to increase their scope in order to grow. The problem is increasing scope in an untargeted way that leads to more cost but without a commensurate increase in revenue.
I don't think any sane person would argue that DropBox going into the enterprise was a bad business decision.
Not that companies never have bloat, but it's obvious from your comment you don't know what DropBox actually does these days. Have you seen the admin pane for enterprise users? There is a huge amount there alone that goes into permissions and role management, auditing, compliance requirements, etc.
One simple example - how many engineers do you think it took to get all the compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC II, HIPAA, etc.) implemented and maintained? My guess is that that is one of a hundred requirements you didn't even consider.