[gdsfg534]

It's hilarious that what you impute to them is, essentially, that they don't have enough bullshit: useless management that hires endless hordes of bootcamp graduates for no reason (then lays them off when cheap money are over), no BS conferences without any substance, no hires of overpriced American "talent" when they have a tremendous pool of much much much more affordable and no less qualified people from CIS countries. Also, let's not pretend that a chat app is some kind of rocket science that requires a company of gazillion engineers and other stuff characteristic of VC funded special Olympics.

[anon373839]

> Also, let's not pretend that a chat app is some kind of rocket science that requires a company of gazillion engineers

You cannot be serious. A service with a billion users and Telegram’s feature-richness and complexity cannot be maintained by a few people. If it’s true that there are no Telegram alums on LinkedIn, etc., that is deeply suspicious.

[fakedang]

Apart from the WhatsApp example (which itself is enough to suffice, because WA hasn't changed much on positives post-acquisition), it's very much possible that Telegram is just a bunch of 50 or so people. They do not have a Dubai office afaik, but it's not that hard to get CIS talent to move to Dubai for highly paid but less than US salaries.

FWIW, I co-run a quanty multifamily investment office, and all of our employees (including partners) are expressly forbidden from listing their workplace on LinkedIn - which is the norm for family offices. We simply write Family Office and call it a day. In return, the firm will take care of you and your family for generations - extensive compensation but also other perks that you will never get in other jobs at any level.

[rightbyte]

Whatsapp had about 50 employees at half a billion users before Facebook. What could that mean. 15 programmers and 10 sysadmins?