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mpweiheryesterday at 9:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

> People from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, etc...it's all the same.

Hmm...it's been a while, but when I was at Apple one of the reasons given internally for why products were so much better than the competition (and they were) was that Apple typically had 1/10th the number of people working on a particular product or feature.

I wonder if that's still the case.


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achieriustoday at 2:46 AM

Maybe not 1/10, but definitely on-the-order-of 1/4th or 1/6th as many.

pembrookyesterday at 10:18 PM

It was less true when I was there more recently.

But Apple is still amazingly efficient compared to others like Meta/Microsoft/etc if you just look at raw headcount vs. product/service/distribution surface area.