Comment on CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences
Evotech@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s just insane to me that it even takes 1500 people to run Spotify to begin with
People think that because you can build a Spotify clone with two sticks and a heroku subscription it must not need a lot of people to work on. It’s what Elon said about Twitter prior to buying it and gutting all the features.
These apps are first and foremost businesses with legal, HR, and all sorts of other roles before you get to product. And the products are so mature, so complex, that you need dozens of teams to cover the entire thing
Why not? Some companies do have a fraction of Spotify users and have around 100 software engineers. Things do not run by themselves. Also they are in many countries so you need to keep up with legal changes…
I can see the need for those engineers but more importantly, Spotify needs sales people.
Spotify is also a record label now. They probably need an entire division devoted just to the marketing and strategy needed to make that successful
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 months ago
Techwise it probably doesn’t, but then there’s marketeers, sales, accountants, legal, etc…
treadful@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
It’s the music industry. Probably 50% lawyers.