All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad

Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by wisty on Sunday June 12, 2011 @05:33AM (#2646162)

Facebook just doesn't have many engineers. "Over 2000 employees" (wikipedia says) just isn't that many. Compared that to Google (~20,000 to 30,000?), Microsoft (~90,000), or the IRS - over 100,000, or the Pentagon - 757,000.

Facebook has an order of magnitude less than just about any other similarly sized organization. It's bigger than Wikipedia, though.

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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by ma2rten on Sunday June 12, 2011 @07:05AM (#2646277)

Of those 2,000 employees only about 300 are actually engineers, if I recall correctly. But the point is, I guess, more about quality then quantity.

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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by wisty on Sunday June 12, 2011 @08:01AM (#2646329)

I think the real cost is in the ~50,000 engineers* who are trying to clone Facebook, not in the ~300 who are actually working on it.

* Made up number.

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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by adrianN on Monday June 13, 2011 @03:04AM (#2648345)

If they think they can make any serious amount of money by trying to beat Facebook at their own game, they aren't so bright, I think.

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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by VMG on Monday June 13, 2011 @05:03AM (#2648518)

Assuming that number is very high, those people wouldn't necessarily be rocket surgeons if they weren't trying to clone FB

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