And that team size is doing the 100% YOY growth thing.
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In case you were wondering whether the engineering hiring market was slowing down, here’s Amazon deploying probably every YC company combined on *one product*:https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-says-it-has-over-10-000-employees-working-on-alexa-echo-1542138284 …
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(If you’ve got a better Fermi estimate for “every YC company combined” than 10k would love to hear it; I’m basically finger-to-wind guessing on that.)
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Bleah. Seems like a waste of talent. We need 10,000 smart folks to be designing affordable housing.
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No we don't. 10,000 engineers are useless against the power of 3/4 million NIMBY homeowners bent on sacrificing a city's livability on the altar of property values and neighborhood character. But 9 city council members and a decent mayor might do the trick. Cc:
@rezoneseattle
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And doing a worse job than many YC companies could!
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Shut up he's creating JOBS
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'raisin my rent
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Imagine how many more jobs YC would create, this is probably better
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keep all progress out of new york city so i can save money
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Waiting for amazon to start vacuuming up all the extra postdocs being cranked out in STEM
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From your lips to Bezos' ears brother!
Actually I know people who have taken that route.
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“Thankfully” it’s proven time and time again that quality of software is inversely related to the number of people working on it.
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How many of those are engineering jobs? They have a data entry farm (phonetic transcriptions, I think) in Cambridge, so I see those job postings a lot - and they're all for Alexa.
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What fraction of those employees do you think are engineers?
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I can't even begin to comprehend how this is organized. Incredible
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