[ralph84]

The over-hiring was a deliberate strategy to keep talent comfortable on the sidelines instead of working for startups that could potentially grow into competitors. Any talent that escaped containment was quickly acqui-hired to get them back in the paddock.

[disgruntledphd2]

Nah, in Facebooks case it was more that they scaled engineering as they scaled sales.

Which is absurd, because sales is linear whereas engineering is sublinear.