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Wow, the remaining 400 mill is a 200k salary * 500 people * 4 years. Is Twitter past 500 employees?
by ericd 15y ago
Wow, the remaining 400 mill is a 200k salary * 500 people * 4 years. Is Twitter past 500 employees?
- britta 15y agoThe last line of the story says "in the past year, its head count has grown to 600."
- ericd 15y agoAh didn't see that, thanks. That's insane... I wonder how many of those are devs.
- sschueller 15y agoWhat do all these people do? I can't see twitter needing 600+ people.
- idoh 15y agoI can see how it can happen. I've worked at some media companies that do a lot less than twitter does and they've hit 120+ employees, just doing ads. Twitter does ads, as far as I can tell via promoted search results, trending topics, and follow suggestions. There are people who traffic the ads, people who manage accounts, sales staff that get the accounts, marketers, biz dev, product managers, financial analysts, accountants, and engineering + QA who just do ads, optimization, billing, reporting, and trafficking UI. On top of that you have middle management, then senior management on top of that. Add to that support like HR, legal, facilities...it all adds up. Not saying that it needs to be that way, just that I've seen it be that way.
- rdl 15y agoGenerally most of those people aren't making developer salaries, though -- 200k is high for support staff loaded salaries. Account reps, if you don't include commissions, are probably more like $30-50k base.