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by rubidium 1245 days ago
No established company invests 75% of their people into new features and services. There was definitely bloat. The degree of bloat is the unknown.
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There's always bloat somewhere, but some of that bloat is there to allow your company to weather unexpected occurrences.

Sure you have two extra SREs you don't "need", and your HR department might be slightly overstaffed. But then one critical employee gets cancer and is off work for 6 months, and another employee has to go on maternity leave, and you don't have any extra employees in that department anymore. Hope you didn't fire your bloat!