This isn't to be facetious or insulting, I'm genuinely curious. There are ~40k FB employees, but it doesn't seem like the scope of work to keep FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger all running warrants so many people. On top of that, they apparently are leasing out huge swaths of offices space around Seattle, implying they want to hire _even more._ Google has ~100k employees but they seem to have way more products and subsidiary products than FB. Am I just underestimating how many people it takes to keep these things running, or does facebook own more stuff than their big properties?
Gotta collect all the personal data effciently and sell it for profit. 😉
It may seem that way and before the blind trolls comment something funny let me say that fb is so huge now that we need more people to better manage it.
It’s a function of revenue and cash flow. There is definitely room for getting rid of redundant heads. They continue experimenting with several new bets that need new hires.
They have a big sales org. There is more to the company than the engineering org.
I mean it’s just a little app
You realize all 40k of them are not engineers right?
To me it is so hard to have the that same thought about any company, after being in the industry for a while. As long as there is funding, there is always new things to try or improve...
Need more people to collect data bruh