* Headcount: 2368 people* * Hired in 2015: 1160 people https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does-Airbnb-have-1 https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does

* Headcount: 2368 people* * Hired in 2015: 1160 people https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does-Airbnb-have-1 https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does-Airbnb-have-1 I worked in a company with similar growing speed. And things went from good to bad. Everything starts with the size of the company. Upper management stops being related with what most of their employees do. So they start to take bad decisions promoting the wrong people. That didn't happen when the company was 500 people, as upper management knew most of them and knew personally the people that they were promoting. That is lost way before getting to the 2000 employees mark. First-time managers promoted ad-hoc to fill the ranks are not able to deal with the company complexity. So now you have employees used to voice their concerns, to be pro-active, and demanding explanations from management decisions. But management is now mediocre and is not able to attend the needs of high performing employees. The company tries to play cool, but the people that believed in that way of working is long gone. Silos start to pop up everywhere. Departments try to protect themselves from the chaos. The first to leave is the leaders of the company. Those people were the ones-to-go when you had a problem, they maybe never became managers and just wanted to mind their business. For them is easy to find new jobs and they are tired of fighting the new bureaucracy. I don't know what happens next. The company I left is at this stage. Maybe things get better, maybe they just fail. But I guess that this "best company to work" just becomes a normal big company, and that's all.