[Marsymars]

I work for a company that does kinda similar software stuff for vehicles - Uber has about two orders of magnitude more drivers than my company, but about three orders of magnitude more engineers - it's almost like they've got diseconomies of scale.

[dangus]

Two orders of magnitude are a lot of orders of magnitude. It could be the difference between using really easy off-the-shelf solutions to having to architect your own technology to solve scaling issues like Google has.

[Marsymars]

Yeah, two orders of magnitude are a lot. So are three orders of magnitude. ;)

[fardin1368]

and how many countries and markets does your company operate in? Products do not just magically scale to 80+ countries.

[Marsymars]

Uber operates in many more countries than us. Enough to necessitate ten times more engineers per driver? I can't really say without more insight into what they're doing.