> ... and alot more communication needs, testing needs and maintenance.
Yeah, I was sort of including that in overhead, of a non monetary sort, in my own head. There are valid reasons why FAANG companies are so big on teams and team size and managers and reorgs, etc. I imagine one of them is it makes it much easier to switch expectations and focus and projects easily when stuff starts going off the rails (which you can always expect it too with so many people and departments with slightly, or very, divergent goals).
> let the engineers/product people have power to set this back on course.
Careful about wishing for engineers to have too much say. Some of the biggest (business) blunders have been because the engineers went and built something magnificent (or attempted to), but the market and sales people didn't know how to sell it (or it wasn't what the customers wanted).
Sometimes that comes out okay for the rest of us in the end as it spurs innovations and other companies to (eventually) do the same, but it's bad for companies when it happens.
Although you probably know that, and that's why you said engineers/product people. :)
Yeah, I was sort of including that in overhead, of a non monetary sort, in my own head. There are valid reasons why FAANG companies are so big on teams and team size and managers and reorgs, etc. I imagine one of them is it makes it much easier to switch expectations and focus and projects easily when stuff starts going off the rails (which you can always expect it too with so many people and departments with slightly, or very, divergent goals).
> let the engineers/product people have power to set this back on course.
Careful about wishing for engineers to have too much say. Some of the biggest (business) blunders have been because the engineers went and built something magnificent (or attempted to), but the market and sales people didn't know how to sell it (or it wasn't what the customers wanted).
Sometimes that comes out okay for the rest of us in the end as it spurs innovations and other companies to (eventually) do the same, but it's bad for companies when it happens.
Although you probably know that, and that's why you said engineers/product people. :)