Because I don't live in a world where my team needs to grow for me to feel more successful? My teams have been small and tight-knit at every place I've been an Eng leader. I left a job with 13 engineers and they're at >90 now, apparently doing less; but, that's just what I hear second-hand.

I want to do MORE with the same amount of folks.

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pjmlp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I unfortunately have been in enough situations where team sizes get to shrink, unless there is some escalation going on.

First it was offshoring, then managed cloud environments and servless, followed by ready made SaaS products, low code/no code iPaaS cloud products, and now agentic runtimes.

The ones doing content translations, asset management were the first, followed by classical infrastructure people, then most backend roles, and so it goes.

	▲	solyin an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not everyone makes the transition. In the rise of AWS, someone I know's last task at this one company, a company they'd poured their heart and soul into; it was to move everything off the on-prem servers that he'd procured and the company had been running in for years. He moved it all onto AWS, got rid of that hardware, and then he was out of a job.

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ben_w 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I want to do MORE with the same amount of folks.

So do I, but I've been in two companies that had to let me go because the investors said they didn't want my role to exist any more. Plus two other roles where the company straight up ran out of money.

It's not always up to us.

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jacquesm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

HR meeting in room #3, please bring your coat with you.