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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What are some of those services?
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- Stripe, for one -
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Napkin math: 1 EM - $350k-$750k total comp 1-2 senior engineers - $350k-$750k total comp 2-3 midlevel engineers - $200k-$400k total comp 2-3 junior engineers - $150k-$250k total comp Low end estimate of team TC: ~$1.2M. Without including design or product.
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Where is this napkin??
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This is pure gold advice, thanks! How do you find out these teams and convince management they need your service? e.g. I made https://documentation.agency/ a while back but wasn't sure how to continue. Even when consistently #1 devs pain point is bad documentation.
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Incidentally, I attribute my open source success to writing decent documentation, and it was greatly inspired by
@stripe's docs!
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When do you decide to add to an engineering team or add a whole new team?
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