Why tech startups these days hire so many engineers?

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Oct 3, 2019 10 Comments

Take Airbnb, Uber/Lyft, WeWork, Instagram as example, these are not super technical products IMO. The frontends/client apps can totally be done by a 20 people team to build from scratch, and the backends may need another 20-30 engineers to scale the service or do some ML. Add 20 more engineers for internal tools and other stuff. i cannot think of a reason why they need hundreds of smart engineers, what are they working on?

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