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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

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Re: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

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Our company has a position like a DEI director, and honestly, it baffles me. All they seem to do is push what some might call 'leftist woke propaganda' in their never-ending meetings, and I question whether our company's resources should be invested in that.

TIL: DEI == Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (if anyone else didn't know).

Ignorance is bliss. If you do not know what DEI is it is a bit like not knowing how to be an overweight. You are better off not knowing it.

Re: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

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Our company has a position like a DEI director, and honestly, it baffles me. All they seem to do is push what some might call 'leftist woke propaganda' in their never-ending meetings, and I question whether our company's resources should be invested in that.

Could you give some concrete examples from this DEI director of the kind of things you're calling 'leftist woke propaganda'?

I am not OP but one of the things I have seen these people do is to insist on removing words like "nitty gritty" from our developer documentation by calling it racist.
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