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Re:HashiCorp – S1 by selcuka on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:24AM (#29115428)
One might argue that those are costs, not head count. By the same logic we can also assume that they use contractors who bake pizzas for Facebook employees when they order from Domino's.

I guess a somewhat better metric would be "profit per employee" instead of revenue.

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Re:HashiCorp – S1 by ClumsyPilot on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:38AM (#29115523)
"contractors who bake pizzas for Facebook employees when they order from Domino's"

Clearly keeping facebook platform from breaking the law on childporn is pretty central to their business, but pizza is not

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Re:HashiCorp – S1 by selcuka on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:47AM (#29116138)
Maybe. But the point is, ad absurdum, you can do business with zero employees and all contractors, or with zero contractors and all employees. It's not possible to measure efficiency with a simple "revenue over employee count" metric.
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