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$2.5 / user * 1.1m users / developer = $2,750,000/developer http://blog.ebuddy.com/index.php/ebuddy-blog/beating-facebook-at-user-to-engineer-ratio/ http://blo

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• ramchip 16y ago
  All employees are not developers, however. There are apparently 1400+ employees (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet), so that would make 1.1B / 1400 = $786k per employee of revenue. Here are some numbers to compare it to: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/performers/companies/bangbuck/employees.html http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/perfo... Apparently it's a bit over average for the "Internet Services and Retailing", but not as high as eg. Google.
• cliffchang 16y ago
  As a matter of comparison, let's look at Google. $23.6 bn in 2009 (don't have 2010 numbers, and don't want to speculate). I don't know how many engineers they have, but I've heard the number 10,000 bandied about. The below says about 20,600 employees total, so my hunch is that 10k might be a little bit high. http://investor.google.com/documents/20100331_google_10Q.html http://investor.google.com/documents/20100331_google_10Q.htm... Given the 23.6 bn is probably low for 2010, and 10,000 engineers is probably a bit high, the resulting value of 2.36 million is a lowball estimate. The real number is probably closer to, oh, say, $2,750,000 / engineer :D