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> By your measure, Facebook is still not a large-scale engineering organization "9,199 employees as of December 31, 2014" -- that's probably close enough to hi
by freyr 12y ago
> By your measure, Facebook is still not a large-scale engineering organization
"9,199 employees as of December 31, 2014" -- that's probably close enough to his metric to call it a large-scale engineering organization.
Of course, there's the real question of why Facebook needs to be a 10k+ engineer organization. For a minute it looked like they'd grow past their MySpace 2.0 roots. That becomes less convincing every day.
- drzaiusapelord 12y ago>that's probably close enough to his metric to call it a large-scale engineering organization. Maybe 1/5th of that are software engineers of any sort. Sales, marketing, management, admin staff, QA, sysadmins, etc tend to fill up organizations.
- freyr 12y agoAh nice catch, I misread the quote as 9k engineers. That said, after seeing their new offices, I'm not sure I can retract the general sentiment of my previous post.