Through my experience of working with engineering teams and throughout many other aspects of life, I’ve learned that more is actually less. It is even true when assessing engineering teams in tech startups.
When I see companies like Google and Facebook with their thousands of engineers, I can’t help but wonder: Is there really a need for such a huge engineering team? Is that the most efficient way to become a meaningful, large and successful software company? Don’t you lose contact with your product with so many engineers simultaneously working on it? And how fast can you really make changes with the bureaucracy of such a large organization?
