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Spotify cuts almost 1,600 jobs amid rising costs
(www.theguardian.com)
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I would’ve never guessed that Spotify had more than 1,600 employees in total, or that 1,600 only accounted for 17% of their workforce.
So they have around 9,500 employees, for a global corporation it doesn't seem that many.
You have to account for various positions like legal staff to handle contracts with artists and enterprise customers, across literally every jurisdiction in the world. Then, other supporting roles like marketing, sales, cleaning and management.
What really surprised me was that among those 9,500 employees around 6,000 of them are software engineers. 500 would have been my first guess accounting for the infrastructure size, the number of platforms they support, the complexity of the features, and the need for 24/7 support around the globe.
As a personal anecdote, the ratio of software engineers in the companies I have worked for was around 20%, ie 1 engineer for every 5 staff.
I would really like to see an organisation tree, how many teams are there and what are they working on???