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Great point. It's easy to judge twitter here, and by many different data points FB has been an exceptionally well run company, but engineers are a lot more expe

• adventured 9y ago
  I definitely agree with the salary inflation. Here's another interesting contrast between them given that. Twitter has roughly twice as many employees, versus what Facebook had at a comparable monthly active user count. It's costing them something in the neighborhood of $200 million per year to keep those employees. Twitter's organization size was built up on the assumption of a much larger userbase that never materialized. Then their leadership chose not to adjust to the new reality (until perhaps recently, as they seem to be finally focusing on costs).
  • mcintyre1994 9y ago
    Wait, Twitter are paying $200m on employees, bringing in $2.5bn and spending $3bn (draining half a billion)? I assumed their biggest expense would be employees, what are they spending $2.8bn/year on? At that scale spending 4x what Facebook spent on employees at the same level (assuming 2x as many with 2x salary inflation) barely registers.