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- nolok 3y agoStackoverflow has over 500 employees ?!
- Kiro 3y agoWhy is that surprising?
- qbasic_forever 3y agoIt's basically a wiki with well under a terrabyte of data total and a billion requests a month (modest load in the grand scheme of web apps). It runs on less than 10 servers (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-overflow-still-on-prem-runs-qa-platform-off-just-nine-servers/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-overflow-st...). It's kind of bonkers to have hundreds of engineers supporting a handful of servers.
- biorach 3y ago500 employees, not 500 engineers.
- arp242 3y ago- Sales people, account managers, etc. for their ads business - Sales people, account managers, etc. for their Teams product. - Sales people, account managers, etc. for their Enterprise self-hosted product. - Sales people, account managers, etc. for sponsored tags, collectives, etc. - Support for the above (and the public Stack Exchange sites). - Engineers for the above (and the public Stack Exchange sites). - Community managers (who, among other things, fight abuse). It all adds up. From what I remember most people working for SO weren't engineers, not even years ago (many were involved with the jobs site back then). There used to be a "Our Team" page which listed everyone who worked for SO, but it seems that's gone now.
- floydian10 3y agoI don't know why people are so often surprised about the number of employees in a company. My company has half the number of employees, we're not remotely as relevant as SO.