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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by snoopsnopp on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:19AM (#38515602)
When I was junior I used to buy this explanation, but 9,000 developers is probably more then are actually working on huge projects like Linux or .NET it’s approx 100 times more developers then you’d ever reasonably hire. It’s just for financial reasons it’s cheap to double up of devs instead of giving raises
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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by objclxt on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:19AM (#38515606)
> When I was junior I used to buy this explanation, but 9,000 developers is probably more then are actually working on huge projects like Linux

They don't have 9000 developers, they have 9000 employees.

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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by piva00 on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:00AM (#38515849)
How did you come up with these numbers? I'd like to hear your reasoning process for 90 total employees.
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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by cqqxo4zV46cp on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:55AM (#38516194)
Because unfortunately the world has given developers big heads and convinced them that they know about things that they don’t.
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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by snoopsnopp on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:51PM (#38520456)
Because I have experience in the industry. Where is anyone getting any of this info? Don’t just believe these guys they are fake accounts repeating marketing info.
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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by pb7 on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:45PM (#38522788)
The irony of this comment coming from a 4 day old account with nothing but baseless shrieking.
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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by piva00 on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:44PM (#38521243)
I also have some 2 decades of experience in the industry, so please, share me your reasoning, how did you arrive at these numbers? Just a ballpark, no appeal to authority as I believe we are both similarly seasoned...
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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by stuartleigh on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:24AM (#38515641)
They don't have 9000 developers, they have 9000 staff.
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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by phaer on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:20AM (#38515610)
9000 employees, not developers alone.
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