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by cliffchang 5847 days ago
As a matter of comparison, let's look at Google.

$23.6 bn in 2009 (don't have 2010 numbers, and don't want to speculate).

I don't know how many engineers they have, but I've heard the number 10,000 bandied about.

The below says about 20,600 employees total, so my hunch is that 10k might be a little bit high. http://investor.google.com/documents/20100331_google_10Q.htm...

Given the 23.6 bn is probably low for 2010, and 10,000 engineers is probably a bit high, the resulting value of 2.36 million is a lowball estimate. The real number is probably closer to, oh, say, $2,750,000 / engineer :D