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1500=17%? Why do they have so many employees??
by dmix 3y ago
1500=17%? Why do they have so many employees??
- nerdo 3y agoPretty nuts, wasn't winamp like 5 people.
- sethd 3y agoIs this satire? Spotify may very well be bloated, but this comparison is ridiculous.
- appplication 3y agoSpeaking purely from the dev side, a competent 5-person team could probably build 95% of Spotify’s current functionality in 2-3 years. Of course there are many other necessary nontechnical roles that would be unfilled (legal, business development, etc). It’s no secret that companies tend to scale their workforce exponentially in exchange for logarithmic gains in their core product.
- splittingTimes 3y agoAsking myself the same question. With the previous layoffs they were around 7500 people. That is mind boggling. What do the all do all day??
- fy20 3y agoApparently in 2014 the entire company only had 1354 employees. https://www.statista.com/statistics/245135/spotifys-revenue-per-employee/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/245135/spotifys-revenue-...
- Gys 3y agoSupport? Now replaced by a LLM? It seems the trend…
- cirrus3 3y agoThat's quite the leap you made there to get dramatic about LLMs takin' our jerbs. It seems to be a trend... Support is not likely it, it's not the type of app that requires a lot of human support in the first place, tbh, I'd be surprised if you can even talk to a live person. Even if it was support, those would probably be the lowest-paid employees and not help much in cost cutting. Not sure what a LLM would even provide for Spotify support that a static FAQ couldn't.
- dham 3y agoModern frontend dev
- sublinear 3y agoFrom my experience this is wildly incorrect. Not even big tech hires that many devs, especially for frontend. That's at least half the reason why most frontends are terrible.