That’s not a recessive gene though. If 1% of the population carries a recessive gene (and assuming it’s equally in male and female) then 0.025% of the population or 1 in 40000 offspring will actually have the recessive trait. This is why it’s almost impossible to eliminate a recessive gene from a gene pool.

If you apply your same line of thinking to a physical store then why does any company have more staff than the cashier? The point is that a company consists of way more than just what you interact with directly.

You need staff to clean, staff to provide support for other staff, whether that's catering, technical, or anything else. You need staff to ensure that your operations are not violating any local or national laws. You need to break the company up into smaller units in order to be manageable and you need management staff for those units. The list goes on and scales up as the size of the company grows - especially so when it's an internationally operating company.

OP can ask a followup question if they want. Otherwise, I'd be writing an essay explaining a bunch of things that aren't really related just to make the point they aren't related.

"Recessive alleles aren't selected out because there's nothing about recessivity that inherently carries selection disadvantage" is a perfectly fine point to start with.

There's actually a bit more to it than just "all the wheels pointing straight ahead". The front wheels in particular usually have three settings - camber, caster, and toe. Camber is the vertical angle the wheel meets the road at ( left - right tilt ), caster is the steering angle ( forward / aft tilt ), and toe is the horizontal alignment of the wheel ( toe-in or toe-out ). If any or all of those adjustments are incorrect ( due to normal wear and tear, or hitting something on the road ), your tyres will wear in an uneven and premature way. These settings need to be periodically adjusted as suspension and steering parts wear and settle over time.

If a recessive gene exists in the population, why would you expect it to die out without knowing anything about it? By default, you should expect a gene to stay at the same frequency in the population unless it's helping or harming the organisms that carry it.

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No, it’s a recruitment based large multinational business with all the complexities that come with that. With a lot of their clients “cutting their cloth to measure” they need to do the same.

Well could you explain this like we are 5 then?? What's the difference? Do they overlap? Which is more complex?

The simplest explanation I can provide is that it is not a "website", it is a "company" that provides a lot of their services to their customers on a "website".

They are a global company. They need people who know those countries in order to operate there.

The people who build the website are one group of people responsible for managing the company. Who designs the website? Who manages the projects they are working on? Who pays for all of those people? Who interviews new people that they need? Who works in the customer service department? Who sells the services they provide to other clients or companies? Who services their office spaces? Who ensures facilities are restocked for their office workers?

It is a company.

At least in the UK, some garages will do the free alignment check if your car is in for other work. If it's out of alignment, it's an easy upsell for them.

To the people saying that websites need a load of staff to run, this is baloney - especially for something like indeed. Truth is these companies scaled way too much and then realised they were hugely overstaffed.

Power comes in the active and goes out the neutral.

The active has protection on it that causes it to stop the electricity if something goes wrong.

If the active burns off inside an appliance it doesn't have the neutral to take electricity away anymore, it becomes dangerous and can cause the appliance to give you a shock.

The ground wire is connected to the casing of the appliance so that if the above happens, the electricity now has something to take it away and trigger the protection to stop the electricity.

Good thing your teacher wasn't like Mr. Burns

It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good

I have 30 years in the industry on both sides of this and radically disagree with this. Cloud computing is not free in money or service but it has fundamentally reduced tech and HR and service costs over the pre-cloud years when you had whole teams devoted to nothing but running a server farm, managing hardware, environments, cables, connections, internal networks, comms and goddamn telephonic.

Cloud computing changed all of that. Sure, the BiG Box hosts still have their centers to manage and your tech team needs Cloud expertise. But outsourcing the hardware and 90% of networking issues has made IT a much better management environment for the end user.

It's much less of a wild west week out there for tech teams. Now, just don't go unplugging those mega centers and we'll be fine. :-)

Let's consider the few ways Indeed makes money:

• Premium job listings
• Allow employers to access resume database
• Targeted ads
• Indeed hiring events

So let's look at tech stack since Indeed is a platform company. Each of these streams are pretty distinct and will require different tech infrastructure. Each tech stack will have unique front/mid/backend requirements. A lot of work will sit here on the shoulders of the tech team on finding the most cost-efficient method to scale this to millions of users. People are also accessing this platform via different means (mobile/web) so this adds on to complexity.

And who's going to sell the services? You're going to need Sales & Marketing teams to think of customer funnel strategies to get these employers onboard. Once they are onboard, you're going to need people to service these accounts. These companies can be considered the supply side of the equation.

But which employer is going to upload their job listing or pay to access resume database if there's no prospective employee browsing or uploading their resumes? You're going to need another similar team here to take care on the demand side. There needs to be a lot of work done to get people convinced that uploading their resume and job searching on Indeed is going to be worth their time.

Recruiting is also one of those things that can turn into a complete shitshow with cross-region regulations. Indeed obviously doesn't only operate in the US, so just imagine the amount of countries it wants to sell into, and the different amount of employer regulations it needs to keep abreast on. The team here needs to be very, very solid to avoid regulatory risks.

Want to run a multi-national business? Better make sure your corporate functions are solid too then. Here lies your unsung heroes, finance folks, office ops, HR, the people making sure your IT equipment are available and functional when you're working from some remote place on the planet... list goes on.

The "website" by itself isn't really what makes them the money, it's being a middle man for connecting job seeker with employers.

For that, they have large teams to sell their services to employers, account teams to manage the relationship of employers, customer service teams to help employers with any issues they see.

Just creeping to the side is obviously corrected by the steering wheel. The obvious issue are the wheels each steering to different sides.

I worked for a website that had hundreds of employees. The development department probably had two dozen. Some were database devs, some were user interface devs, some were "full stack" devs, which I understand to mean they can do it all. There were people working on strictly search engine optimization. There were folks working strictly on improving the search function. That was only the dev team. The IT team was in charge of the company infrastructure like internet, servers, computers, networking, security, etc. The finance team had probably 15 people max during my time there. This company sold physical merchandise internationally from three fulfillment centers. There was a logistics team and all the fulfillment centers had dozens of employees. There was a customer service department with a couple dozen employees. There was a creative department that made content for the website. So, sound guy, film guys, editors. There was a legal department, an HR department, a product development team, a marketing team, a graphic design team, content writers, data analysts, so on.

That company was doing about $120 million per year and roughly about 300 total employees during my time there. So you can just scale those numbers up or down depending on the revenue of the company to get some idea of how personnel can grow and shrink.

Wobble can be a million things; wheel balance is one of those things, but only one. Could be alignment, bad steering dampener, bad power steering system, bulged tire, loose steering components, loose suspension components, or brake disc warping, and that's not even a full list.

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Yes, I think the role would be called something like 'account manager'

The comment at the top of this chain mentions engineering.

There will be at least 200+ account managers selling job adverts to businesses and managing the postings for the website. ( I used to work for a competitor)

You'll have then a marketing and comms team to generate natural sales.

HR, office managers for their physical locations, tech staff, developers etc....

It adds up very quickly to lots of staff.

The hardware maintenance costs have been the least of your problems as an IT department for a very long time. You could bung off the shelf servers into colo racks and basically forget about them. All moving to the cloud has done is replace the emergency alert from your colo provider with a "the cloud is experiencing issues" message from your cloud provider (reliability and resilience may well have significantly improved, or may not depending on your cloud provider). Yes, you don't have to plan for new hardware every few years, but the cost of the that is small next to the cost of renting compute from the big cloud vendors. Even the dedicated staff planning out your hardware strategy have not gone anywhere, they've just become the staff planning cloud strategy.

Maintenance of the software has always been the biggest pain in the arse, and that is usually not particularly outsourcable.