I bet you are doing a lot of custom work in those $50M+ contracts, right? Heavy SDLC, constant change orders. Twitter on the other hand, is providing what is fundamentally a very static yet scalable service, with very few actual changes. I'm guessing their workload these days is 90% operations, 10% break/fix, and 10% product development at best. Which means you don't need hundreds let alone thousands on the tech side.
Giant companies like Twitter frequently bloat. You might have a whole team in charge of just one aspect of the feed algorithm. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if they had dedicated departments for each iOS and Android, despite the idea that Twitter is almost certainly API driven... Again because of the bloat inherent in these giant companies.
Twitter also most likely has translators and content moderators for all kinds of locales. That said I'm not trying to cover for them, we know they're shady as anything and Faucis daughter works there as an "engineer"
I bet you are doing a lot of custom work in those $50M+ contracts, right? Heavy SDLC, constant change orders. Twitter on the other hand, is providing what is fundamentally a very static yet scalable service, with very few actual changes. I'm guessing their workload these days is 90% operations, 10% break/fix, and 10% product development at best. Which means you don't need hundreds let alone thousands on the tech side.
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Giant companies like Twitter frequently bloat. You might have a whole team in charge of just one aspect of the feed algorithm. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if they had dedicated departments for each iOS and Android, despite the idea that Twitter is almost certainly API driven... Again because of the bloat inherent in these giant companies.
Twitter also most likely has translators and content moderators for all kinds of locales. That said I'm not trying to cover for them, we know they're shady as anything and Faucis daughter works there as an "engineer"