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> It reported roughly 4,200 employees last quarter Wow - what do all these people do?

by e15ctr0n 11y ago

Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 11y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised by that number as well, but then again, Facebook got tons of news coverage yesterday for adding five emoticons (did they actually add them, or were they just flighting it?). Things are strange these days.
ennuihenry 11y ago
And half of its employees are engineers.
- TheBlueDot 11y ago
  Not really, but close. That number includes PMs and design, I think just engineering is closer to 40%. Still big though.
superuser2 11y ago
According to the Twitter Careers page: Software Engineering, Design & UX Research, Sales & Revenue, Product Management, Infrastructure Operations, Media & BizDev, Trust & Safety, User Services, Legal, Finance, Workplace & Admin, Marketing & Communications, HR & Recruiting. As far as engineering, take a look: https://about.twitter.com/careers/teams/software-engineering https://about.twitter.com/careers/teams/software-engineering Many companies are much more complex than you might imagine from the outside. Also, a lot of it is meta-headcount: managers, facilities, food service, payroll, benefits, recruiters, lawyers, HR people, etc. all scale at least partially with headcount. You'll notice many of the jobs are with companies Twitter has acquired or various platform-level projects, like Fabric, Vine, TellApart, Finagle, etc.
- TheBlueDot 11y ago
  With almost 50 (17 in the last two years) acquisitions most of the growth is from that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
raincom 11y ago
You hire managers, when the direct reports increase. When you are a manger with 5 direct reports, you want to increase the headcount to justify your existence: you go around looking for projects, and direct reports.

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> It reported roughly 4,200 employees last quarter Wow - what do all these people do?

by e15ctr0n 11y ago

> It reported roughly 4,200 employees last quarter Wow - what do all these people do?

Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 11y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised by that number as well, but then again, Facebook got tons of news coverage yesterday for adding five emoticons (did they actually add them, or were they just flighting it?). Things are strange these days.
ennuihenry 11y ago
And half of its employees are engineers.
- TheBlueDot 11y ago
  Not really, but close. That number includes PMs and design, I think just engineering is closer to 40%. Still big though.
superuser2 11y ago
According to the Twitter Careers page: Software Engineering, Design & UX Research, Sales & Revenue, Product Management, Infrastructure Operations, Media & BizDev, Trust & Safety, User Services, Legal, Finance, Workplace & Admin, Marketing & Communications, HR & Recruiting. As far as engineering, take a look: https://about.twitter.com/careers/teams/software-engineering https://about.twitter.com/careers/teams/software-engineering Many companies are much more complex than you might imagine from the outside. Also, a lot of it is meta-headcount: managers, facilities, food service, payroll, benefits, recruiters, lawyers, HR people, etc. all scale at least partially with headcount. You'll notice many of the jobs are with companies Twitter has acquired or various platform-level projects, like Fabric, Vine, TellApart, Finagle, etc.
- TheBlueDot 11y ago
  With almost 50 (17 in the last two years) acquisitions most of the growth is from that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
raincom 11y ago
You hire managers, when the direct reports increase. When you are a manger with 5 direct reports, you want to increase the headcount to justify your existence: you go around looking for projects, and direct reports.