Interesting blog post by Evernote CEO

Posted by 22111
Jan 6, 2014 at 03:45 PM

It had not been my intention to comment on EN; I had seen the Kühn post early on, and thought by myself, so what, no sw can be stable at all times, since some of the debugging simply has to be made by the customer (it’d be too expensive to do all the testing inhouse and then wait forever to do the release).

Also, we know now that EN relies on SQLite which is quite straigthforward and certainly not overcomplicating things.

Ok, it’s a cloud applic now, which adds complexity, and I understand its input facilities ain’t bad.

So, it is safe to assume there is not a single developer as in most cases of outliners (except for TB as the presumably only exception of them all?), but 3 or 4.

But then I read this (in the link above):

“Staffing - Today, there are 164 engineers and designers working at Evernote. About 150 of them are currently assigned to our core software products. The total number will increase quite a bit in 2014, but the proportion will stay the same: over 90% of our resources will go towards improving our core experiences.”

And now that leaves me speechless. I had always assumed a ration between 5 workers and 95 people doing nothing was a phenomenon exclusive to public administrations.

I’d be very thankful for any insight into the matters all those 145 people (presuming 5 others do the work) might contemplate about. Where’s the trick there?