As most of us do know that WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion, so it wouldn't be a new or suprising news to us, the popular messaging app earlier had about 35 engineers and 450 million users for a start.
But unlike tech titans such as Google, Amazon, or even Facebook itself, WhatsApp is still behaving like a tiny little startup.
Despite its massive success and Facebook's bankrolling, WhatsApp now has 57 engineers, total. That small size helps the organization stay nimble, but also requires the whole team to be on the same page, this might be surprising to others that WhatsApp has only 57 engineers to be running 🏃 one billion users on WhatsApp.
Other chat Apps like Messenger, Google Hangouts, and the like build complex apps, though WhatsApp is focused on just making the simplest, most reliable chat app. As we all know, WhatsApp is not stressful to signup, also no need for password this or password that unlike any other chat app.
WhatsApp software engineer Reed says that "Our mission is to provide a simple, fast, reliable communications tool without a lot of extra bells and whistles," he also said that "Just Enough engineering," as in, the company putting in just enough effort and resources to stay true to that focus, and it's a philosophy that guides the whole company.
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