Im not so sure about the infinite resources part, more like a self inflicted austerity of resources - its a technology problem emergent from a organizational problem, emergent from a certain late stage mindset

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nickdothutton a day ago | parent | next [-]

~220K staff, ~$330B revenue, ~$200B EBITDA. How they direct those resources (wisely or otherwise, timely or otherwise) is a management decision. I feel I should also point out that when talking about people, "resource" is not the same as "talent".

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Take8435 a day ago | parent [-]

Are those numbers accurate now that 60k were offered buyouts?

Anyone want to guess if any of those afflicted _could have_ caught an issue that may have prevented this disaster?

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afavour a day ago | parent | next [-]

1) they haven’t left yet

2) they’re only expecting 10% or so to take the buyouts, so more like 6,000

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heisenbit a day ago | parent [-]

Now what if those were mythical 10x engineers?

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dv_dt a day ago | parent [-]

imho, especially in large tech orgs, every engineer is a 10x engineer for the right circumstances. But they're 1x engineers the rest of the time. But the whole reason to keep them around is you get the 10x performance when it's needed. Perhaps handy when a massive outage occurs

	▲	donny2018 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Any experienced dev at any org who knows how to deal with that particular pile of mess because it has been their job for at least half a decade is 10x developer.

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poilcn a day ago | parent | prev [-]

They haven't left the company yet

	▲	Take8435 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Do you think those offered buyouts may have less incentive to focus as much?

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tonyedgecombe a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have a feeling it's like weight gain. If you run lean your whole life you are fine but if you let the pounds pile on then you are in for a whole lot of pain when you eventually try and lose it.

	▲	dv_dt a day ago \| parent [-]
		sometimes you're bulked up because it takes muscles to lift the extra 300lbs of load. now go on a sudden crash diet and see if you can lift the same weight without dropping it