[whichdan]

Scale. Twitter and Dropbox are dealing with problems in a completely different realm than Gilt or Birchbox. Shopify would be a more interesting comparison; it's an e-commerce platform, rather than an e-commerce site, which undoubtedly deals with a lot of issues Twitter and Dropbox had to in their earlier days.

[kimcheeme]

Good point. But do you think that an average engineer few years out of college working at twitter / dropbox is working on projects that enables one to see the big scaling solutions or are they just working on one little side project that no one really cares about; whereas at Gilt, they may have a much smaller engineering team so each engineer has a broader set of responsibilities. I think if you are like a VP level person, yeah I completely agree with you, but wondering if that experience is similar at the junior level.