> Elons original thesis of Twitters problems was absolutely correct, why you needed 8000 people to run that org (or whatever the number is for Lyft especially on the engineering side) is beyond me. Overengineered is absolutely the correct term in these cases I think.
Anybody who read the mythical man-months knows that adding engineers to a project gets be detremental if it leads to a point where the marginal added communication overhead gets higher without really needing more people to achieve the goal.
The usual solution in big companies for the overengineering problem is that people who don't want to fight the org self-select, drink lattes all day long, and let the few people who are needed to solve the engineering problems do the work.
>The usual solution in big companies for the overengineering problem is that people who don't want to fight the org self-select, drink lattes all day long, and let the few people who are needed to solve the engineering problems do the work
Anybody who read the mythical man-months knows that adding engineers to a project gets be detremental if it leads to a point where the marginal added communication overhead gets higher without really needing more people to achieve the goal.
The usual solution in big companies for the overengineering problem is that people who don't want to fight the org self-select, drink lattes all day long, and let the few people who are needed to solve the engineering problems do the work.