cursed PM:engineer ratio — samuel.fm

Samuel

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cursed PM:engineer ratio

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com· 8 Jan 2024

when your roommate is like "don't worry it's gonna be a small party" and then it's 60 people

We believed a leaner organization could help us build higher quality products faster, and this proved correct. We started with a very small team, with around a dozen people in total. The vast majority of the whole team came from Instagram. Everyone joining the Threads building towards launch was an internal transfer: so they were working at Meta beforehand..

The peak staffing on the team was a week before launch. At this time the team consisted of:

3 product managers

3 designers

About 60 engineers

Samuel 8 Jan 2024

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like