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Out of curiosity, does Google really have that many engineers working on Chromium? According to Wikipedia, Mozilla has ~750 employees and only a subset of those
by cjpearson 4y ago
Out of curiosity, does Google really have that many engineers working on Chromium? According to Wikipedia, Mozilla has ~750 employees and only a subset of those are working on Firefox.
- londons_explore 4y agoThe repository gets 500 commits per day. Assume the average engineer manages about 1 commit per day. Thats about 500 engineers working on it... [very rough, but ballpark correct]. And remember some people might be working on experiments/research/ideas that never make it into the repo. And there are lots of libraries in other repos that kinda only exist for Chromium that Google also works on - eg. the Skia graphics library. But... on top of those engineers will be UX designers, managers, HR, finance, chefs, and all the other people who make an organisation work. I think 1000 is a good guess - maybe even 2000.
- dblohm7 4y agoFormer Mozilla employee here: A subset, yes, but also a majority. And it isn't enough.