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by echoangle 141 days ago
Yeah, more than 4600 employees seems wild for Pinterest. Reddit seems to have about 2200 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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I would imagine the minority are technical. You usually need a large sales team to handle the relationships in ad sales.
The 15% included contractors. Many of the Mobile developers were South American contractors.