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We have close to 2,000 of them, and maybe 100-200 I would consider proficient in any type of technical role.

There was a massive push to hire as many developers as possible, so recruiting extended offers to everyone that applied. Senior engineers who have no degree or have ever worked at a tech company before.

I have no problem working with people who are capable of doing the work we need them to do.

The node.js front end is on its second complete rewrite in the last 2 years, and a huge source of the scaling issues. Almost all the backend is still in Java.

(Throw away for obvious reasons)

It is all total crap. We dumped a bunch of time and money into rebuilding everything as SOA and on all the latest technologies. Most of the work was done by an army of Indians that couldn't get jobs elsewhere in the valley. Absolutely nothing scales.

We have more servers in total than peak users to the site, and still can't get any respectable performance numbers.

The few smart people left here are super excited to jump over to Jet ASAP.