you don't need a large team. you need a small team of very good people and if you can't get that, a large team of mediocre to poor programmers with one or two high performers who spend half their day contemplating suicide is not a replacement
@deprecated_ii diversity in general views staff positions are nepotism hook ups and not as something whose purpose is to help the company overall. They don't care about performance, they care about getting their 42 cousins a paycheck.