In case you were wondering whether the engineering hiring market was slowing down, here’s Amazon deploying probably every YC company combined on *one product*:https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-says-it-has-over-10-000-employees-working-on-alexa-echo-1542138284 …
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Picking five successful ones kind of at random (AirBNB, Stripe, Zenefits, Twitch, Dropbox) gets me up to ~8100. I'm not sure how to estimate the tails of the distribution, but it's likely you're lowballing a bit...
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Thanks! Would probably revise upwards to maybe 13 or 14k then.
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what they don't tell you is that those 10,000 employees spend all day long in meetings
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Nah, Amazon was at least OK about that. Microsoft on the other hand... oof.
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https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ claims 28k+ jobs created at top companies
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