Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.

Will Larson · 10 Oct 2016

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Past a certain hiring rate the marginal value of another engineer falls towards nothing, because training and interviewing consume the engineers you already have.
Mental modelS-curves and diminishing returns

Their wordsthis is where the oft raised concern that hiring is slowing us down comes from: at high enough rates, the marginal added value of hiring gets very slow, especially if your training process is weak.

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