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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by trieste92 on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:37AM (#34737530)
130 × 250k = 32.5 million

I'd be surprised if this "drop in the bucket" was anything more than a sunk cost

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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by red-iron-pine on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:19AM (#34739876)
There is no way that many or even most of them are getting anywhere near $250k per annum. Even living in the bay area -- which many of them might not be. GOOG has offices in Austin, Calgary, and Nashville, for example.
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Re:Why big tech companies need so many people by tdeck on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:28PM (#34746122)
But that's not what this thread is about, it's about why the companies have so many employees. These 130 jobs that so many people want to complain about don't even begin to have relevance to why there are 190,000 people at Google.
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