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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by beowulfey on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:10AM (#33466024)
I was curious about the numbers that other tech companies may employ as a comparison... from some cursory googling:

* Meta: 71,970 [2021]

* Apple: 164,000 [2022]

* Amazon: 1,298,000 [2020]

* Netflix: 11,300 [2021]

* Alphabet: 156,500 [2021]

* Microsoft: 221,000 [2021]

* The New York Times: 5000 [2021]

* Fox Corporation: 9000 [2020]

* Reddit: 700 [2021]

(Anyone else I should add?)

I can't really find any trends. I think Reddit is an outlier, and my impression is having only 3750 employees would probably put Twitter on the smaller end of the scale too.

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by ryanwaggoner on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:28AM (#33466327)
Reddit planned to double to 1400 in 2021 alone [1], it wouldn't surprise me if they were at 1500-2000 by now.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/9/22274077/reddit-funding-ro...

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by davedunkin on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:18AM (#33467086)
Craigslist: 50
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by _whiteCaps_ on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:23AM (#33467173)
I think Reddit is an outlier because they offload a lot of their moderation to volunteers.
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by thinkingemote on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:24AM (#33467192)
We'd need to also see the money (income/revenue/profit) of these companies, and then see the ratio of employees to money. Musk saw that list and noticed that Twitter had the lowest ratio.

To get the ratio metric up, they have to increase income or reduce employees.

This rationale, given by Musk (and I imagine VC friends) is all outlined in the discovery documents of the twitter vs musk legal case.

edits, i dug it out and made it a top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467305

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by therealdrag0 on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:03PM (#33471196)
Also product market type. Building pure software and ads is different than building consumable hardware, data centers, etc
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by thethethethe on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:07PM (#33471271)
These numbers are misleading as many of these companies have an army of contractors that are not included in the official headcount numbers.

Google, for example, has more contractors than full-time employees, bringing the total employee count up to over 300,000

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by VirusNewbie on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:11PM (#33473829)
Reddit can barely stay up and constantly has weird bugs so they likely need more!
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by duderific on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:50PM (#33474337)
I've been using Reddit daily for a couple of years and have never seen downtime or any weird bugs. I use the mobile app, not sure if that's what you were referring to.
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