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Something that I don't quite understand about Spotify is why they had the amount of employees that they did in the first place. What were 9000 people doing for work on a music playing and recommendation website. I know they used to be highly innovative and disruptive a long time ago, but has that been the case in recent years? How were 9k people contributing to this already established web music app?
I don’t know how many in that 9000 are actual developers, but you also have to take into account the non-technical corporate employees (accounting, legal, marketing, support, curators, HR, etc.). They also have offices in different countries that most likely have some sort of corporate structure (all of the above roles, just on a smaller scale).
Yeah, I could imagine their legal department actually making up a sizeable chunk, with how much the music industry loves to sue.