I remember reading this post years ago, and it has stuck in my brain ever since: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

So I suspect the answer is: they need _at least_ 10x as many engineers to get things done as you would expect. Maybe more like 50x

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B1FF_PSUVM 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That was a highlights grade comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights )

And the last comment by 'oraguy' - I hope he just picked up another id because "never work for Oracle again" ...

	▲	muskstinks 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		what a horrible horrible read :\| Clearly shows that either no one understands the whole picture anymore or that it became so diverse custom, that this is the only way of handling this now. I think though that these companies are more business companies than tech companies and move themselves into this nightmare.

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bombcar 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's even more wild when you realize that other similar-sized enterprise companies don't have all that and either leave bugs to sit around for decades, or randomly break shit trying to fix them.

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seniorThrowaway 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That is really wild