[alerter]

> Builder hired 300 internal engineers and kicked off building internal tools, all of which could have simply been purchased

Tempted to say there was a bit of corruption here, crazy decision. Like someone had connections to the contractor providing all those devs.

otoh they were an "app builder" company. Maybe they really wanted to dogfood.

[alephnerd]

A similar thing happened at Uber before the 2021 re-org. At one point they had 3 competing internal chat apps from what I've heard from peers working there, and having previously worked for a vendor of Uber's, I noticed a significant amount of disjointedness in their environment (seemed very disjointed EM driven with no overarching product vision).

Ofc, Gergely might have some thoughts about that ;)

[Inviz]

One good thing that came out of that disjointedness is temporal.io, which is an ultimate microservice gluecode tool

[pyman]

Hmm, this is the reasoning of a kid: "You hire devs instead of using AI, therefore you are corrupt". More conspiracy theories. Based on what the article says, it was a dev shop like Infosys or any other Indian dev company, they were working on hundreds of projects.