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13,000 employees!!!???



The vast majority of the 13,000 are going to be CSRs and CSR support staff/management.

The actual development team will be small in comparison.


Microsoft has 90,000


Yes but Microsoft has Windows, Office, Xbox, Surface, Bing, Skype, etc. PayPal is a big business with many features, but 13,000 people is a lot for just that one thing. I can't believe even half of them are developers.


When you have a quarter billion users of a money transfer product with 24/7 support, you probably need a pretty big service staff. I'd imagine customer support, tech support and administrative staff outnumber developers.


Let's not forget their international presence. PayPal is classified as a bank in many countries.


You will be surprised how employees work on one thing called iPhone.

A large product like PayPal might have dozens of sub systems. Its difficult to imagine from the outside the dynamics of large companies and how they function.


A big portion of that may be the call centers though.




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