Inspired by a thread on HN incredulous about engineering headcount at a large software company: The biggest thing people don’t appreciate about large companies is the basic productive unit isn’t an individual it is an engineering team with about ~8 members.
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Incidentally, you can trivially estimate the cost of an engineering team at single digit million dollars. There exist some services whose value prop is “If you use this, save yourself one engineering team or even an engineering sub org.” They’re all underpriced.
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Another thing not terribly well appreciated is the need for organizational memory, organizational redundancy, and a career path.
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Ten engineer startup: “Organizational memory?!? We’ve only been here 6 months; nobody’s forgotten anything.” BigCo: “We have about five million words written... TES: “Eek!” BigCo: “... by one of our senior engineers. And we have several hundred senior engineers.”
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good rule of thumb there- every thing you do is ~$1 million/year in engineering salary
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That seems low
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This is even more present for startups, where literally one team does it all. Literally, from HR to buying coffee.
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