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Re:Ask HN: An engineer resigns -> How tech companies manage ... by acuozzo on Friday August 16, 2024 @03:09PM (#41269396)
How would this approach apply to, e.g., an R&D project in which each member of the team is a SME, "rotating" is not possible, and hiring two SMEs for each position would have a negligible impact on how quickly the project gets done?

Consider, for instance, an embedded software engineer, a PhD in computer vision, and a PhD in optics working together on a laser weapon.

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Re:Ask HN: An engineer resigns -> How tech companies manage ... by p1esk on Friday August 16, 2024 @05:15PM (#41270478)
an embedded software engineer, a PhD in computer vision, and a PhD in optics working together on a laser weapon

In real world, in your example there would be more than one of each - a lot more.

The only hypothetical scenario I can imagine where this could happen is 3 founders in a freshly formed startup.

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Re:Ask HN: An engineer resigns -> How tech companies manage ... by acuozzo on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:16AM (#41300283)
> In real world, in your example there would be more than one of each - a lot more.

This is not necessarily the case in military-adjacent R&D laboratories.

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