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>down from nearly 4,000 a week Do they really pay that many people to work on development? That's 100 fulltime jobs.
by Suppafly 2y ago
>down from nearly 4,000 a week
Do they really pay that many people to work on development? That's 100 fulltime jobs.
- softwaredoug 2y agoIt does seem like throwing investor money at 4000hrs/week open source development was a ZIRP
- GavinAnderegg 2y agoAutomattic has over 1,700 employees. [0] They had more than 1,900 before the buyouts and departures. [1] With that many people, I’m sort of surprised that they only had around 100 full time staff working on WordPress core. [0]: https://automattic.com/press/ https://automattic.com/press/ [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240801231830/https://automattic.com/press/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240801231830/https://automatti...
- Suppafly 2y agoFull time employees? 1700 employees from 90 countries sounds to me like they are counting anyone that's ever contributed anything as an employee.