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by ruh-roh
1519 days ago
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"Number of engineers" has become another vanity metric in the VC ecosystem and it needs some pushback. I have viewed of a ton of tech leadership job postings in the last year+, and almost all of them have a requirement/bullet of "grew Engineering team from X to XXX", or something like it. As an engineer, building & supporting products with the right / a limited amount of engineers should be the goal. The Whatsapp example is fantastic and should be lauded. It might be extreme, but we need more stories like that, not less. I get that most view it as a proxy for business growth, but I fear there's a growing group of non-technical investors/leaders/founders who see FAANGs with 4000 engineers, so you're only successful if you have that many too. |
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