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sn0w_crash · 2022-10-20 16:27:13

How does a company like this need 7,500 people?

sho_hn | karma 9295 | avg karma 5.37 · | 2023-12-04 05:50:18

I'm also curious what they need 10k people for. What of the business is so labor-intensive?

ProAm | karma 9697 | avg karma 3.29 · | 2017-01-05 17:40:50+00:00

It's way to big. This company could be run successfully with ~30-40 people.

asaddhamani | karma 1549 | avg karma 4.38 · | 2021-08-11 21:31:29

They have 2500 employees. Why does a single product company with a product that is mostly “done” need those many people?

lobocinza | karma 817 | avg karma 0.83 · | 2024-02-20 01:15:07

Why they need so much employees?

TheBigSalad | karma 350 | avg karma 1.34 · | 2022-12-08 10:24:56

Having used twitter, I don't know what I don't know, but it's hard to imagine how the company could possibly have 7K employees. Maybe 500 to 1K seems more reasonable given what's there.

exabrial | karma 16024 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2024-04-23 16:04:07

I'm blown away that company _needs_ more than 1,500 employees in the first place...

ThinkBeat | karma 3644 | avg karma 2.66 · | 2023-10-16 14:57:44

It is one of those companies I wonder how many people you really need to run it.

sixQuarks | karma 3552 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2020-04-08 03:58:39

Whoa, why do they need 12,000 employees? I'm seriously trying to figure out why they need so many.

nebula8804 | karma 2288 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2022-10-05 13:51:54

Even if this were true, do you really think it takes 7,500 employees?! Because apparently thats how many employees they have over there.

tootie | karma 12927 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2020-04-08 00:19:49+00:00

Sure, but why do they need 13,000 employees is the question.

RenierZA | karma 163 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2012-10-10 08:17:00+00:00

I see from that report they have 589 employees. Why do they need so many?

jfengel | karma 12433 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2022-09-13 12:41:56

I'm kinda surprised it's only 7,000 people. $5B in revenue last year means each employee was bringing in 3/4 of a million dollars. Not bad.

sidcool | karma 15724 | avg karma 3.54 · | 2024-02-05 12:16:50

Obligatory HN question. "What do they need 5500 employees for?"

xyzzy4 | karma 343 | avg karma 0.63 · | 2017-02-10 18:31:55+00:00

They're potentially able to profit from it, but they feel the need to have thousands of employees.

kesselvon | karma 770 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2017-06-01 13:39:41+00:00

To be fair, they have like 4,000 employees. I don't understand how they need that many employees for a product that hasn't changed much since IPO

throwaway889900 | karma 185 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2021-10-11 15:27:40

I imagine OP is talking about a significantly smaller company than 1500 people.

kelukelugames | karma 4887 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2018-10-17 14:43:09

It's a company with 10s of thousands of people. What did you expect?

missedthecue | karma 7595 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2020-04-16 23:12:23

How can they possibly employ 6400 people.

magashna | karma 1776 | avg karma 3.46 · | 2019-09-26 18:25:59+00:00

How can a company in this industry just strand 600 thousand people!?