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I can almost understand why U and L need 1000+ engineers. There are millions of vehicles, each one emitting location data every few seconds, that is a shitload of data to process in real time. That couples with millions of passengers and the needs for match making, mapping and routing, fraud detection, ride sharing, all to be done in real time, not a small fate. There are also large number of drivers joining or leaving the platform all the time, which introduce a ton of compliance, insurance and safety issues. But airbnb are dealing with more static entities. There are fewer of them. They don’t emit data every few seconds. They don’t move or stuck in traffic. They don’t get into traffic accidents (hurricanes, maybe). They don’t need to vett a credit card in seconds. Just like wework or compass, what do the engineers spend time on? i have a tremendous respect towards the engineers at airbnb. I just have trouble wrapping my mind around it.
How many engineers does it have? My understanding is that they had a lot more employees in other departments.
~20-25% engineers overall
Go read a couple of their blog posts bud
I am familiar with the Github repo of Airbnb and their contribution to multiple open source projects. Like I said, I had tremendous respect for their engineers and every interaction I had with them was positive. I also know Amazon was so not-competitive when someone had offers from Airbnb - they got the cream, we lost every single time last year in my org. But why they need to solve so many hard problems? At a conceptual or philosophical level I found it not so intuitive.
If it’s your intuition, then you need to start thinking big
Oh boy, on the day they announce layoffs? Insensitive.
I hope this is sarcasm
Horrible look for Amazon
Huh? What do you mean by this comment?
The OP's attitude may be considered reflective of Amazon's culture
“how many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?”
I completely agree with you ive never understood the hype and allure of being an engineer at airbnb. Their product is literally a glorified craigslist with a aesthetic front end. There are literally zero complex engineering problems. Why their engineering reputation (for hiring at least) is on the level of uber, lyft, stripe, etc is beyond me. I guess the high tc was a good magnet but now that theyre getting fucked and the undiversified riskiness of their product is being elucidated.
Lookup open source projects by Airbnb. They do a lot more than a webapp to rent houses. Sometimes there are multiple teams each trying to reinvent the wheel, atleast they can coordinate to reinvent the wheel once.
Yes, I know Airflow and Synapse reasonably well. Those are impressive accomplishment. That is kind of beside the point, though. I thought the key mission was a webapp to rent houses.
It’s for growth. Everyone wants a second unicorn just incase their first one ever loses it’s flame. If Airbnb had a second equally profitable business model, they wouldn’t have had to layoff 25% of their staff.
They need engineers on staff to maintain their JavaScript style guide on GitHub.
Are you an IC or manager?
Manager.
nflx, I’m guessing you’re an IC 😂. Touché question!