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> "During her 4+ years at Facebook, the company exploded from 500 employees serving 80 million users to 5,500 employees and over 1.1 billion users." Tangential
by vkjv 11y ago
> "During her 4+ years at Facebook, the company exploded from 500 employees serving 80 million users to 5,500 employees and over 1.1 billion users."
Tangential to the article. But, I find it kind of surprising that the employee to user base growth was linear. I would expect it to be closer to logarithmic in a well run company. Although I have no data points. Am I off base?
- zevyoura 11y agoFacebook does a whole lot more now than they did when there were 80M users. I think if they provided the same functionality over the years this would be more concerning.
- ra1n85 11y agoSorry for the nitpick, but is it logarithmic or exponential in this case? To the point, I would not be surprised if 5,500 was the "settling" point. In my experience, the hiring pendulum takes some time to swing far enough to include an adequate number of employees in a rapidly scaling environment. (e.g., I would not be surprised if 500 million users were served by 750 employees.)
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