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As impressive as Facebook is, I truly think it is ridiculous that they have ~800 employees. How many does Craigslist have? Wikipedia? Granted, FB needs a few
by webwright 18y ago
As impressive as Facebook is, I truly think it is ridiculous that they have ~800 employees. How many does Craigslist have? Wikipedia? Granted, FB needs a few more to manage ad sales/delivery, but... 800?
- henning 18y agoThat's one of the advantages of simplicity: far lower overhead. craigslist is very simple, so they have something like 23 employees.
- wensing 18y ago25 according to CrunchBase.
- liuliu 18y agoWikipedia seems like only have 5 programmers. Am I correct?
- alexandros 18y agoFacebook was hell-bent to become the new google and built an organization to match. In fact, the hype was promoting facebook as the successor in the ibm->microsoft->google line. Thing is, google did not begin to be 'the new' anything. And with the downturn setting in, Facebook may have to get its focus back or we may be talking about it as 'remember that website that had tons of users and no revenue' in a few years.
- aston 18y agoLots of Facebook's man power is in customer support (which also involves community moderation). When you have more than a hundred million users worldwide, there's a lot of work to go around in that area. And I guess they're not outsourcing much of it.
- fallentimes 18y agoI wonder who has more customer support problems/issues to deal with: Craigslist vs Wikipedia vs Facebook?
- pmjordan 18y agoWell, Wikipedia has an army of rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth volunteer deletionists, so I don't think they need much staff to moderate...
- aston 18y agoUnlike Wikipedia and Craigslist, Facebook has zero moderation by the actual users. In fact, I think the only time they've asked users to do anything for them was the translation effort. Given the success of that, maybe they'll move to more moderation by the community in the future. It's certainly cheaper...
- kirubakaran 18y agoand 10,000+ servers!