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Hire lots of people... complexity, arcaneness, process and knowledge-hoarding becomes vital to job-security.

also when you need to develop a new feature and it needs to go through A:B testing frameworks, localization (including Arabic Right to Left text/layouts), phased feature roll outs, 99.999% reliability, integration testing, planning for use cases anywhere from LTE/WI-FI in USA to EDGE network in developing countries, and you need to build the tools that do those things too. Clearly the 100 engineers are sitting there twiddling their thumbs.

They have a few other apps too, right? Driver app, Uber Eats, Uber Freight, etc.

I think you might of missed the point... everyone has regulations and current problems at any scale, but the ability of BS job roles to hide in a large workforce and for managers to build pyramidal layers of organizations of little added value (but lots of expensive management layers with ever loftier titles).

I think you have been to a few rodeos :)

Yeah, when a team goes from 2 to 100, a serious business/engineering manager got to ask a few questions. However, if money honey flow is not a problem, it could be in everyone's interest just to ride along

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