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>>> In January, following similar moves by other tech industry giants, the streaming giant announced it was cutting around 600 jobs out of around 10,000. I wou
by fasteo 3y ago
>>> In January, following similar moves by other tech industry giants, the streaming giant announced it was cutting around 600 jobs out of around 10,000.
I would have guessed a total headcount of 2K-3K. Anybody has an idea of the approximate headcount by department ? 10K full time employees seem a lot to me.
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoThere's a rule that when at scale every edge case is a real problem. There's likely a whole org working on integrations with some oddball apps and devices. They likely make millions from this edge use case since Spotify operates at such scale. There's likely an org that makes small 0.1% improvements to server infra that saves millions. Every possible edge case bug is being hit at their scale. It's worth having extra engineers to tackle those. Not to mention the shear business complexity of what they do. Billing, paying royalties, advertisers, legal compliance etc. 10k employees. For a huge company that operates across the globe. That seems small.
- anthonypasq 3y agono trust me i could recreate spotify in my garage with 5 engineers, I mean all they do is play mp3s, how hard could it be.
- flangola7 3y agoFTP server and a big pipe is all you need
- fasteo 3y ago>>> Not to mention the shear business complexity of what they do. Billing, paying royalties, advertisers, legal compliance etc. Thanks, that was also my guess. Would be interesting to know headcount by department. Hence my question.