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Out of curiosity: what size do you think constitutes a “team” vs. a “department”?

GitHub Next is 18 people (inclusive of all roles), which seems appropriately-sized to be called a “team” (certainly in a large engineering company).

But apologies if that came off as misleading.

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With more than 10, I tend to prefer the term department, though the term department could also be used for an organizational division with a smaller number of people.

The way Cloudflare has Departments on their jobs page fits my mental model of it. One is Emerging Technology and Incubation which sounds similar to GitHub Next. https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/jobs/?department=Emerging...

On the GitHub jobs page, there isn't such a selection, but in autocomplete there are two results for team and none for department or group: https://www.github.careers/careers-home/jobs

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