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"How many people did you work with on Google+?

We're a surprisingly small team (esp. by Google's standards), but we try to make up for it with passion and speed."

To which I ask, how many people did you work with on Google+?

Heh, since Google is famous (infamous?) for saying most products are small teams, just 3 or 4 people. It sounds like they are working all by themselves :-)

That being said, given all the products that had to co-operate somewhat for this to be released I doubt they were 'small'.

that's just propaganda. Their Chrome team alone is over 300 engineers.

It depends what you consider a team. The "Chrome" team is big, but the team that works on the HTML5 parser within Chrome is pretty tiny, as is the team responsible for V8, as are many of the other teams.

How does "pretty tiny" compare to "surprisingly small"?

The same as the ratio of unicorns to leprechauns.

I believe "pretty tiny" is smaller.

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