| > I don't really understand why software engineers keep dunking on each other like this. I'm not dunking on anyone, I'm explaining my day-to-day job with a very small number of senior engineers. We run a highly complex system. There's no way we could handle millions of calls with five-nines otherwise. I won't get further into the details because I don't want to reveal too much PII. I fully understand how much "behind the scenes" work goes on at a place like Facebook. I'm not sitting here imagining rooms of graphic designers thinking what the CSS button radius should be (although I'm sure with 85,000 employees, those happen also). But note that Musk walked into Twitter, fired en-masse, and it still seems the same to me. Yes, there are senior engineers who keep the core functionality working. That is still far less than 85,000 employees. In our case, it's 3 of us handling all software development. And we write a lot of mission critical code. |