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I'm sure it doesn't account for 1B a month, but paying employees is really expensive and airbnb has a lot of them

• flatiron 6y ago
  1B a month just in employees is over 100k employees making 100k a year. i know the tech ones make more but i assume the customer support makes less. that's a lotttt of employees
  • davidwang34 6y ago
    it's not quite that simple. if an employee makes 100k a year in salary, they cost much more than that to the company - the company has to pay for payroll taxes, health insurance, any benefits like PTO or free food, not to mention all the infrastructure the employee uses like the office building, electricity, air conditioning, etc. according to a comment above, airbnb has 14,000 employees. that's a lot of office space and benefits to be paying for. and that's just the employee costs, not counting anything else
• Barrin92 6y ago
  then the next question would be why in gods name have they so many employees. I just checked wikipedia and they have apparently twelve thousand workers? What do all these people do? I don't understand these sharing companies.
  • geronb 6y ago
    The Wikipedia number is incorrect. Actual number is ~7K with most being non-tech employees. About 1K engineers. If you break down the functions, the numbers start making sense. For example, Airbnb has a global payment processing platform, which is basically like mini-Stripe. That org is probably ~100 eng. Then there’s Homes, Experiences, Transportation, Lux, Plus, experimental projects etc. Each team owns a particular page in the flow. Each team needs a backend, frontend, iOS, Android person. Designer, PM, data scientist etc