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I don't really think it's fair to extrapolate github contributors into FTE employees paid by Google, let alone to throw out a '3-5x' number on top.
by insanitybit 3y ago
I don't really think it's fair to extrapolate github contributors into FTE employees paid by Google, let alone to throw out a '3-5x' number on top.
- londons_explore 3y agoManual inspection of todays commits shows that nearly all of them are @chromium.org email addresses, which usually means a google full time engineer. There are some from other companies (microsoft, intel, nvidia). None from random hobbyists that I saw.
- insanitybit 3y agoOK and that makes perfect sense. But then saying "therefor other days I expect those other engineers were @chromium", not so much. I expect that the vast majority of contributors are making ~1 commit and then never again. It also doesn't take into account that the project is over a decade old and many people who have committed to it as FTEs are no longer doing so.