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by whimsicalism 1323 days ago
You guys have never worked at a major social media platform and it shows. It takes around that many engineering staff just to run a passable advertising platform. There are so many technical nuances that you cannot even imagine.
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For context, when I worked at _The Guardian_, roughly half our engineering staff worked in Commercial - doing things for advertisers