Companies are a quirky institution from a pipelining perspective. Schools are easy to model: you take in a new class every year, they mostly predictably level up, and they mostly predictably graduate, on schedule. Cradle-to-grave institutions are still *fairly* easy to model.
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You've got to place your bets on people and also on processes, trusting that (actuarially speaking) you'll have Z number of Q year veterans on hand to support operations in 3 years, which will hopefully be sufficient for requirements that you don't have yet. This stuff is hard.
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Also, participation in companies is 100% voluntary. Not compulsory like school. That's another *major* wrinkle. You can feel the difference between a place that people freely choose to be vs. one they are forced by law to attend.
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Participation in companies is not quite 100% voluntary, which is an interesting wrinkle, and can be a really sharp cultural divide between companies based on how large epsilon is. Liquid labor markets with exit as an achievable option are unfortunately not a law of nature.
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(big) law firms kinda/sorta have this figured out, though.
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