Comment by thelastgallon
12 hours ago
Everything is scalable because for an enterprising executive/manager/employee the most important thing they are trying to solve is scaling their empire. Pay is based on how many reports you have and how big is your budget. Instead of 2 x 20K beefy servers, you get to spend tens or hundreds of million on cloud spend, then dozens of $500K/year SRE/DevOps/Cloud 'experts' running multi-cloud hybrid running kubernetes thingies. There will be SO many internal automation tools and big bonuses for developing those tools (wins all around), yet more and more hiring!
Once other executives understand that you can scale your team massively, they will hire you to scale even greater heights! More #winning!
There is a human element of everything and perverse incentives. Understanding these explains most things that seem baffling at first.
Exactly. Once you become a people manager, the only metric that matters in your career is "number of people below you".
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