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> My current manager decided to add 50 outsourced engineers to a team of 5 to deliver the product in a year (instead of the 1.5 - 2 originally guesstimated).

What one developer can do in a week - two developers can do in two weeks!

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It sounds like you're not having enough coordination meetings. You can make communication more efficient if you add more levels of hierarchy. MBAs are good at managing. Engineers are often wandering off-topic, so put MBAs in between the engineers to manage the communication and avoid unsupervised engineer-engineer-contact between different groups.

I was waiting for a /s at the end of this comment, but now I can't tell if you're kidding.

If MBAs weren't economically efficient, the market wouldn't make so many of them and companies wouldn't pay them so much.

I refer you to the discussion a few days back on people not being accurately modeled as rational agents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181987

Companies and entire markets follow similar patterns of only having bounded rationality, IMHO. Markets can also have decades of slack or delay from stimulus to outcomes. Take the slow decline of Boeing after acquiring McDonnell Douglas and their MBA heavy structure. https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...

This is pure fantasy. Markets have never been efficient and actors have never been rational.

I think that was sarcasm. Or at least I hope so.

Markets are more efficient and by rational it means they act in their perceived best interest to optimize their own utility.

You just don’t know economics, that doesn’t make it fantasy

And you surely got enough answers showing why the "\s" is important...

That's like looking at America and saying obesity and opioid addiction must be drivers of economic success.

MBA schools are just credentials laundering services.

They need more morons.

Source: https://www.mit.edu/people/dmredish/wwwMLRF/links/Humor/Admi...

If we move to a microservices architecture, we can use 100 developers to solve same the same problem in with ten times the hardware!

With growth like that, we'll be unstoppable!

Make sure to deploy your micro services in Microsoft Azure AKS to improve the reliability on the long term, thanks to the included and frequent network issues.

How else will we justify the military grade, globally distributed, multi-planetary federated, immediately consistent Kafka cluster that the CIO just purchased? I’m still not sure how to get all the servers to synchronize when Mars is on the opposite side of the sun.

That has more downtime during upgrades than my college dorm Counter-Strike server built from leftover PC components ever had.

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