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Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games

https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/23/18507750/fortnite-work-crunch-epic-games

by minimaxir • 7 years ago

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infomofo• 7 years ago

“One senior guy would say, ‘Just get more bodies.’ That’s what the contractors were called: bodies.
Epic rapidly hired new staff to handle the deluge, but that the problem couldn’t simply be solved immediately with more employees. “It happened so quick. Literally one day, we were a small amount of people. The next day it was just, ‘Hey, by the way, now you have 50 more people on this shift who have absolutely no training.’

It's amazing to me all these years later how true the lessons of "The Mythical Man Month" were. At the time reading the book in my Freshman Comp Sci course the book seemed so abstract. If anything though, it should be required reading for management, instead of developers.

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