If you were to solely take into account job market size then China alone would dwarf the entire list and require a massive team to maintain on its own for what I hope should be obvious reasons.
And this ignores that the job market size isn't related to the complexity of integration. If you're doing business in China your data retention and storage is going to be massively different than Europe which is different than the US which is different than Japan which is different than Indonesia. These will require some form of backend customization and integration with the common UI framework they use for their site design. You need QA teams, you need lawyers, you need managers and live ops engineers and specialists and researchers to drive user retention and businessmen to reach out to companies.
Have you ever worked in a global team environment? Or perhaps talked to your coworkers working on similar products in other countries?
Yes I understand the rationale behind “lots of bodies”.
As OP was rightly pointing out, there is a discrepancy here between output and size.
LinkedIn for example has many of the same issues and a lot more complex functionality. They manage to do this, compete with Indeed (and have a higher market share), with a relatively small number more people.
Yes, about 25%-30%. And they do way more, in a lot of geos.
Or are you saying LinkedIn has 14,000 employees just for their job board functionality, and only 6k for the other larger, more complex parts of their system?
No? So what explains the relatively small percentage difference in employees but a large difference in functionality and market share?
We are not talking about purely US market share, because the argument being made is that the headcount is required to compete globally.
Job board popularity varies greatly by country, but from the look of it LinkedIn has more of the global market share of Indeed.
My point is that unlike indeed they do this without jobs being the core, 100% thing they are dedicated to. Even if they are slightly behind in market share the point still stands that LinkedIn is clearly doing more with less.
And this ignores that the job market size isn't related to the complexity of integration. If you're doing business in China your data retention and storage is going to be massively different than Europe which is different than the US which is different than Japan which is different than Indonesia. These will require some form of backend customization and integration with the common UI framework they use for their site design. You need QA teams, you need lawyers, you need managers and live ops engineers and specialists and researchers to drive user retention and businessmen to reach out to companies.
Have you ever worked in a global team environment? Or perhaps talked to your coworkers working on similar products in other countries?