"Breaks Down How His Engineering Org Works" is an exaggeration. "Offers a glimpse" would have been more appropriate:
1000+ engineers that include (perhaps a majority) of people working on reliability/operations.
Mobility - engineers _can_ move every quarter to a team that has an open position
Peer-feedback (360?) promotions based system (this is rather popular)
I guess I was hoping for something more about the actual structure and interactions, but it's mostly saying it's not too centralized, nor too distributed and that it's "like a school" and they're using lean/agile methodologies.
He did say "county" not "country", although it seems a typo. However based on Wikipedia data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union) Romania and Bulgaria are the poorest countries in Europe by GDP per capita at only 2% difference(47% vs 49% of EU GDP - 12,100 vs 12,600 euro respectively). Compared to Hungary (14,700 euro), I'd say we're (I'm also Romanian) not far, but rather close to being the poorest economy in EU and we're also the 9th poorest in Europe (http://www.techscio.com/the-poorest-country-in-europe/).
That being said, I didn't know Maciej built Pinboard in Romania, that's pretty cool, I'd say. I wonder what was he doing in Botosani :)
The article makes some bold affirmations, which I'm not sure are covered by actual research (they may be). That being said, having stopped watching TV in the last years had made me better spend my spare time (e.g. studying or working on personal projects).
1000+ engineers that include (perhaps a majority) of people working on reliability/operations.
Mobility - engineers _can_ move every quarter to a team that has an open position
Peer-feedback (360?) promotions based system (this is rather popular)
I guess I was hoping for something more about the actual structure and interactions, but it's mostly saying it's not too centralized, nor too distributed and that it's "like a school" and they're using lean/agile methodologies.