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I'd say they would need at least 30 people each to support windows & mac native apps. Especially considering all the extra overhead having multiple codebases introduces. Maybe more than that.

Edit: Just to clarify "need" is in the context of working in a big company on a complex product. These products are a lot bigger than they appear.




According to the latest public information, Slack has 2,545 employees and Spotify has 9,123.


How many are swe however?


They have thousands of devs and I am pretty sure a good chunk of them are only resting and vesting.

They absolutely can allocate even 100 in total.




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