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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by bootloop on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:02PM (#16539863)
In comparison, Valve has 360 people (2016) and they do a lot. [0]

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-misses-deadline-to-respond-to-...

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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by walls on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:24PM (#16541246)
> and they do a lot

That's extremely generous. They update the client in imperceptible ways every few hours, and they push CS:GO patches every few months. Not sure what everyone's doing over there, but it's not "a lot".

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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by ac29 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:01PM (#16541397)
Steam does several billion dollars in sales each year. Just maintaining that alone must take a significant portion of their 300+ employees.
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by bootloop on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:45PM (#16560560)
Steam team size is apparently 10. [0] (2017)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bQpF16vnE&feature=youtu.be...

Took me around 20 min to find this reference again... I don't think they only talk about a content management team here as the organization is quite flat at Valve and a lot of people do a lot of different things.

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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by csmiller on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:19PM (#16542045)
develope Dota 2, support the Dota 2 tournament scene, work on Artifact, work on Vive...
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by trophycase on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:22PM (#16541506)
Don't they also run Dota2?
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by empath75 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:17PM (#16541489)
Releasing a VR headset seems like a thing.
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by walls on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:41PM (#16541597)
Their VR product is just the HTC Vive.
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by rosstex on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:52PM (#16541081)
They don't do Half-Life.
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by PopsiclePete on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:20PM (#16541500)
:-/
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