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How many people do you think it takes to make a single product? From what you listed, they average 26 employees per product. The products aren't released at the
by traviswingo 9y ago
How many people do you think it takes to make a single product? From what you listed, they average 26 employees per product. The products aren't released at the same time. Most of their products are the same, with minor differences depending on the language they're supporting. IMO they have too many employees...
- edpichler 9y agoJust to maintain, evolve, support and do release testing of only one product: Intellij IDEA, checking the thousand of details and flows, between frameworks and platforms it runs, to me, it seems a good amount of work. And a company have more departments than Software Development: Finance, Administration, RH, Marketing, etc.
- smacktoward 9y agoBut a lot (the majority even, maybe?) of JetBrains' products are just IDEA plus some extra language-specific tooling. So presumably they have a relatively large number of people hacking on the core of the whole product line, IDEA, and then just a small number of people to add whatever language-specific polish each IDEA-based product requires.
- blibble 9y agothe changes for each new release of IntelliJ IDEA gets smaller each year there's a reason they moved to a subscription model