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by JohnMakin
592 days ago
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> This is an incredibly uncharitable and shallow take, So is yours. > We don't operate in a perfectly legible world, especially more so when it comes to people. It's all bets and risks and whatnot. What bet was dropbox taking by overexpanding their workforce by 20%? > If you or anyone has the power to create perfectly aligned and efficient organization, I'm waiting here to see you build large multi-trillion dollar companies. Let me know how it goes. This is an interesting statement. Dropbox is a single digit $billions company, not trillions. |
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When asking this question, I think it's good to remind ourselves how much we don't know. We don't know if they overstaffed in a push to expand their business that didn't work out, we don't know if the had an older operating model that went from "efficient" to "inefficient" as scale and market dynamics changed. We don't know if advances in productivity to tools, or changes to major client accounts, impacted their staffing needs. Determining whether one is "overstaffed" is a multi-factorial determination that can be false one month and true the next.
Set aside whether it's uncharitable to just assume management oversight or idiocy - it's hubristic. Having said that, it doesn't mean the assumption is wrong, it could be exactly right! But it might not be.