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Large software orgs get around this by having multiple projects that are either loosely coupled or completely separate. Otherwise there’s be no point in hiring more than 10 engineers at any point.

I’ve actually spent a long time working at engineering orgs that run super lean. On the upside there are never layoffs, on the downside you’re really constrained on what problems you can tackle - and that can have some major (negative) business implications.

Anyway I can’t help but feel we are slowly reverting back to the aughts where people thought you could clone Google or whatever with like 5 engineers and didn’t understand why nobody took them seriously.