Rui Peres • 9/25/2022

Scaling pains

The article discusses Mark Zuckerberg's recent statements about raising performance expectations at Meta in light of economic pressures. It uses this as a starting point to explore the inherent difficulties of scaling engineering organizations, referencing concepts from 'The Mythical Man-Month' and contrasting the 'surgical team' model with the author's personal experience of rapid growth and the 'agency model' at a tech company, where engineers lacked ownership.

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#software engineering #team management #Scaling