Please mention how much your company is over-staffed and do you see financial trouble coming into business going forward? I feel Google is over-staffed by around 15%. Many teams doing useless work or trying to make work to justify headcount. There would be layoffs as advertising is one of the first things companies cut in a recession. Overseas business should be affected as well. Looking for understaffed companies with good business prospects and culture. I could only think of OpenAI and Databricks. How are Airbnb and Doordash? What other companies I should consider? Amazon has bad culture and over staffing, Meta over-staffed by at least 20%, Microsoft doesn't pay well, Apple has bad culture, On Tesla, I like Elon but not as employer TC 400k 9 YOE
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IMO most tech companies could cut 40-50% from their peak (including attrition) and operate the same or better. No hard data just a hunch from a decade in the industry.
Do you consider X downsizing as a success story?
Overall? No. Downsizing was definitely needed though. If X fails it will be because Elon killed the advertising golden goose.
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yep, roughly 30% more people than actually needed. Talking about corporate of course
It does feel like that sometimes but I notice management keeps coming up with work to do big or small. Perhaps its to show HC is needed.
Yeah I mean if they don’t create work for you it is hard to justify their job.
Definitely feel over staffed. Some teams are over staffed and some under staffed. The over staffing is a big concern. Leads to incompetence and busy work that lowers other engineers productivity
Definitely understaffed :(
20% of the people do 80% of the work
Did you mean revenuable work ?
Only 15% for Google?