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New features in faang products do not come from user demand. User demand is the domain of startups and medium businesses undergoing rapid growth, not faangs
>who is doing this
new features are created endlessly because in faang companies promos are awarded based on the features, projects, and "impact" you did over the past review cycle, and middle managers are likewise promoted based on how much "impact" their team had. Doesn't matter if the projects are ever deployed or if they have users or if they "impact" the business in any way (they wont). in fact most projects are never deployed. but at faang that doesnt matter, you put enough "high impact" projects in your promo packet and you will make staff eventually. faangs are just code grind mills where vast armies of software engineers are being paid to grind out tens of millions of lines of code that will never see the light of day, and middle managers are being paid to play politics and justify why they should all continue to be paid
Maybe 2% of engineers at a faang work on products core to the business that generate the revenue. But because these products generate such an obscene amount of cash, a google or a facebook can afford to have tens of thousands of engineers on its payroll writing tens of millions of lines of code for nothing. a bloated workforce also serves an important function as a financial adrenaline shot for the markets, because you can layoff 10000 workers in one fell swoop to show more profits on the quarterly statement
