What does Amazon need thousands of engineers for, exactly?
Amazon.com is a fine website. It is finished. It is complete, perfect as it is. The website could remain the exact same for the next ten decades, with minor adjustments to the product menus to reflect new products, and it would serve its purpose perfectly without risking being dethroned by competitors.
Why do millions of lines of code need to be written each month? It certainly isn't reflected in my browsing experience.
The British cracked the German naval codes with no more mathematicians than can sit at a table. But Amazon needs thousands of engineers to run an e-commerce website (and its concurrent AWS, which could be run by less than 50 engineers)?
(Not a software engineer or someone who's ever worked for $AMZN)
Edit: Woosh, way too many people failed to understand that this post was mostly sarcasm. Cunningham's Law in action.
Amazon.com is a fine website. It is finished. It is complete, perfect as it is. The website could remain the exact same for the next ten decades, with minor adjustments to the product menus to reflect new products, and it would serve its purpose perfectly without risking being dethroned by competitors.
Why do millions of lines of code need to be written each month? It certainly isn't reflected in my browsing experience.
The British cracked the German naval codes with no more mathematicians than can sit at a table. But Amazon needs thousands of engineers to run an e-commerce website (and its concurrent AWS, which could be run by less than 50 engineers)?
(Not a software engineer or someone who's ever worked for $AMZN)
Edit: Woosh, way too many people failed to understand that this post was mostly sarcasm. Cunningham's Law in action.