What Happens to Code Quality When You Double the...

The quality degradation pattern that follows rapid hiring — and the practices that prevent it. Doubling an engineering team in twelve months is, by most measures, a success. It means the product is working, the business is growing, and the organisation has the resources to invest in the engineering capacity required to sustain that growth. It is also one of the most reliable predictors of a specific kind of quality degradation — not because the new engineers are less capable, but because rapid g