Comment by gregoriol
2 hours ago
I still don't get why companies like Uber have 34000 employees, Canva 12000, LinkedIn 10000, Dropbox 2000, and so on, not even talking about Oracle with their 140000 or Salesforce with 80000
2 hours ago
I still don't get why companies like Uber have 34000 employees, Canva 12000, LinkedIn 10000, Dropbox 2000, and so on, not even talking about Oracle with their 140000 or Salesforce with 80000
Are they comparable? Oracle develops a TON of software. Go click around their website for a while and see for yourself. I have a part time job there and haven't seen obvious bloat in any parts of the org I interact with, if anything a few parts could use more staff especially after the layoffs. It's so large they have a giant A-Z index of products:
https://docs.oracle.com/en/browseall.html
So when you dig in you can easily see what all those people work on.
Whereas, Uber is basically two services (ride sharing and food delivery). So there it's a bit harder to understand. Of course they're in lots of markets and have a huge human support surface area because of all the drivers and riders. Probably most of those employees aren't working on the products.
That's why I put these into a separate list in the post
Are they all publicly traded? I have this theory that publicly traded companies hire people to inflate their stock value.
Because it's a legit question, like if a companye can lay off thousands of people and still run their service, what were they all doing?
Have you worked at a public company, or better yet one that went public while you worked there?
The amount of people working on regulation, compliance and other non-revenue generating responsibilities increases substantially.