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Re:Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to id... by echoangle on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:44PM (#46894106)
Yeah, more than 4600 employees seems wild for Pinterest. Reddit seems to have about 2,2k which still seems a lot but is less than half. I wonder how many of those are programmers and how many are infra, marketing, management, legal etc.
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Re:Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to id... by calypso on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:49PM (#46894141)
The 15% included contractors. Many of the Mobile developers were South American contractors.
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Re:Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to id... by Schiendelman on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @09:03PM (#46894703)
I would imagine the minority are technical. You usually need a large sales team to handle the relationships in ad sales.
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