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> That means that Facebook currently has 80 k employees. What exactly does it need them all for? At Meta’s scale, that’s about 1 employee for every 45,000 mont
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> That means that Facebook currently has 80 k employees. What exactly does it need them all for?
At Meta’s scale, that’s about 1 employee for every 45,000 monthly active users across their platforms. Many of those MAUs are using multiple Meta products.
I’m more surprised that people think this is too many employees. They’re serving a significant portion of the entire world’s population with their products. Of course they’re going to need a lot of employees.
- twoodfin 4y agoTo understand if that’s effective scaling, you have to know how much the average employee is costing Facebook and how much revenue the average MAU is generating.
- lupire 4y agoCost-effective is a different matter from labor-effective. Poor/thrifty users take the same amount of work as users who click on ads and buy stuff.
- indymike 4y ago> I’m more surprised that people think this is too many employees The question that people have is, "what do the employees actually do?" It's because most people have no idea how labor intensive tech is, nor do they understand the math behind the revenue that 45k active users generate. That said, when you look at 80,000 people "to operate a website" it sounds ridiculous (even thought it probably is not).
- Kuinox 4y agoIn 2016-2017, Valve had 360 employees[1], for 67 millions montly player[2], which make 186k active user per employees. But then, Valve was one of the most profitable company per employee count. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation [2] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/valve-reveals-steams-monthly-active-user-count-game-sales-region/ https://www.geekwire.com/2017/valve-reveals-steams-monthly-a...
- hesdeadjim 4y agoEasy to rake in profits when the majority of your business model is skimming 30% of a sale for being a glorified CDN with a skin.
- IntelMiner 4y agoMakes me wonder how many people work in just Apple's "services" divisions. Things like the App Store or iCloud, not hardware or MacOS engineering
- Kuinox 4y agoSteam has way more features than that.
- reisse 4y agoIff it's only a glorified CDN, why noone yet did the same and have taken their market share? Epic Store was kind of a fiasco.
- nso95 4y agoStill waiting on Half-Life 3
- Der_Einzige 4y agoAt least all the games that valve did make were excellent. Can't say the same equivalent about any other FAANG.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoSo what is it they do?