Airbnb Developer Productivity - What Stage of the Company?

At Airbnb, engineers will often feel this pain first. And so oftentimes, we'll have engineers leap grassroots efforts of different skills to address the frustration that they have with developers for productivity. Even with these grassroots efforts, things like release is often still get to a place where the developer frustration accumulates beyond just paper cuts. This is why companies have to play a lot or merge block string holidays and are strategic about what time they do releases.