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Kind of. It's upper-medium.
It's nothing compared to Microsoft Office, a web browser, etc.
Microsoft for example has maybe 50k developers and so creates 50,000 man years of work every single year.
> Typical project size is somewhere around 500 to 1000 man days.
That's roughly 2 devs for a year. That's hardly even a prototype where I work.
It is fascinating to see the difference in scale in our industry.
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Kind of. It's upper-medium.
It's nothing compared to Microsoft Office, a web browser, etc.
Microsoft for example has maybe 50k developers and so creates 50,000 man years of work every single year.
> Typical project size is somewhere around 500 to 1000 man days.
That's roughly 2 devs for a year. That's hardly even a prototype where I work.
It is fascinating to see the difference in scale in our industry.