DevDiv (which makes up both Visual Studio, .NET and a bunch of other stuff) had ~5K people when I left. So very definitely possible. Also, I'm not sure what yo

DevDiv (which makes up both Visual Studio, .NET and a bunch of other stuff) had ~5K people when I left. So very definitely possible. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by the 'shell'. VS is a huge beast and has dozens of components, several of them coming from outside the VS team.