Yes, marketing. Also software development, web development, design, customer services, corporate services, support, sales, PR/comms, human resources, finance & accounting, legal, and so on.

1500 sounds like a lot, but keep in mind how many customers they have, and in how many countries they sell their services.

The wording got mixed up a bit. "Infrastructure" was a much larger organization, but there was an infrastructure team of about 12 people who worked on Magic Pocket at the time.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pock...

I was also thinking that those numbers are really weird, for a company which does infrastructure(fileservers)-in-the-cloud. Obviously some devs doing software for various platforms, business-side folks and so forth. But 1500:12 is a really weird ratio, given the core function of the business. If they're not spending on infra staff... what staff are they spending on?

Seriously, 12 people controlling all of that sounds like a liability. Are they allowed to meet all together?

I expect that 1300 of those people are in sales.