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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google need so many employees? by cgallello on Sunday January 15, 2012 @01:11AM (#3466508)
After reading what you wrote about each one being its own company, then seeing that Google Toolbar still exists, I started thinking:

"We're delivering the next generation in browser toolbar software"

Oh dear god.

Re:Ask HN: Why does Google need so many employees? by byoung2 on Sunday January 15, 2012 @01:31AM (#3466546)
That is actually a really good example. Look at the competition, Conduit (http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/16/toolbar-company-conduit-rai...), a company that literally has a few hundred employees (150-499 according to Glassdoor). I figure that Google has about the same number as the competition does for each service, so the Chrome team would roughly match Mozilla (~300 employees), the Docs team would match Zoho (~1500 employees), Maps would match MapQuest (~150 employees), etc.
Re:Ask HN: Why does Google need so many employees? by skrish on Monday January 16, 2012 @04:09AM (#3469975)
Not to nitpick, but Zoho also has portfolio of several other products including Accounting, CRM, Helpdesk, Network Manager among others. And their total employee strength as you said is ~1500.