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Surely it can't be that many. And if it is, that has to include janitors at their data centers.
by gibolt 6y ago
Surely it can't be that many. And if it is, that has to include janitors at their data centers.
- cameronbrown 6y agoSure it can. Also, a lot more engineers are required to take a product to market at a big corp than a startup.
- saagarjha 6y agoThat’s more engineers than all of Facebook, AFAIK, and they’re not known for being particularly lean.
- mikorym 6y agoIf you look at the core technology only, then you often just need a handful of experts. It's all the rest that is the problem. The REAPER DAW was written by one person. The initial Linux kernel was written by one person. cURL was written by one person and even your BMW uses it [1]. The original Skype was written by three programmers. The list goes on... Of course, you later get a lot of maintainers joining the projects. But you certainly don't need 40 000 programmers if you are not selling your product, or not selling it yet. And even then I think a lot of those jobs are, while they are useful for AWS, not part of the core development. [1] https://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html https://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoI'd wager a guess that less than half of that is engineering (At Oracle the sales:engineer ratio is around 3:1.)
- discodave 6y agoguess again
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoAre you sure that isn't the legal:engineer ratio.
- discodave 6y agoSeveral of the larger AWS services are at multi-hundred person engineering org headcounts. EC2 has thousands of engineers by my estimation. Source: I worked thete. There are 200+ AWS services now. So just 8 engineers (2 pizza team) for each service would be 1600 engineers. Let alone marketing, enterprise sales etc.