Why do popular social networks like Facebook hire so many programmers?
 

Why can't they just have 1 programmer instead of a whole department?

How many programmers do you think Google should have? About 5?

Five? That's a lot of dead weight. They could likely go with two and some interns part time to cut costs... :1orglaugh

Good point. If they need more they can just call a temp agency.

bcoz they need them.

If you had unlimited money and need the job done yesterday, how many would you have?

1 is way too many. Zero would be a better idea.

the answer is because they can...

Holy fuck ... :1orglaugh

This HAS to be a troll thread.

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retard. :2 cents:

So the candy doesn't expire in the vending machine.

makes perfect sense :thumbsup

Why do they even need a programmer? They could probably run everything off wordpress and if they really needed something custom they could install some plugins, or maybe hire a temp programmer off odesk.

Facebook is programmed in many different languages, an individual programmer won't know every language, so Facebook require at least one programmer per language i.e. 1 English, 1 Spanish, 1 French, 1 Arabic, 1 Chinese etc. :2 cents:

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i still think when you hire too many they start coming up with bullshit changes just to justify their existence - not because it makes things better

Great thread :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I thought this was a troll question when I saw it on BHW (Mosic)...
But now I see you posting the same question here...

If you need to ask such a question then you have little understanding of scale or the complexities involved.

Sounds like bad management to me.

You need one to tell you how what you are asking for is impossible.

This is your department head.

Then you need 5 or 6 more to tell you how he's wrong and then try to prove it and get nowhere.

Then you need a designer who knows a little PHP to show you the real solution.

Then you need the others to tell you what an idiot the designer is and point out all the security flaws in his work.

Then you need a second team to fix the security flaws in the designers code.

Then you need the first team to tell you what an idiot the second team is and mock their code and decry their documentation.

Then the team leader sits there and tells you "OK but just remember I warned you sql is gonna crash with that many queries"

Then the designer simplifies the sql queries and everyone else pretends not to notice.

trolling is an art

I don't get it either, it's not like they have millions of users or something.

I'll be the first to answer-

the reason they hire so many programmers is because they release new code every day, 2x a day.

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?no...50660826788920

> Move fast and break things.

Great motto. :thumbsup

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/t...ta-center-faq/

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/w...rford-2012.jpg
think one guy could run all this?

Well since Indians from freelancer.com can create facebook clones in 3 weeks it surely looks strange to have more than 1, knowing that only tweaking of fb is needed :)

They use employment bloat as a means of keeping good talent away from potential future competition.

Do you know how many great programmers are there compared to amount working at Fb :)

Yeah but maybe Google just hires someone from Fiverr to program in Arabic? :pimp