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diab0lic04/01/20251 replyview on HN

Until a few years ago most projects at Netflix were done with a handful of engineers ( <= 6 ). A dozen people working on something would have been considered very large. Four dozen would have been considered a company wide effort.


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red-iron-pine04/01/2025

isn't the TCO for those engineers also something like 400k each? not talking Principle Big-Dick Super-Staff Engineer, but like mid-level.

Netflix was famous for that, too -- no RSUs, just straight cash, and we'll fire you if we think you can't deliver.

100s of devs would essentially be their entire, company-wide, operating budget; it's gotta be like 10-15 people tops on these things.

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