I honestly don't know why you'd need 250 people to run a service like Dropbox. Dropbox is a piece of software that could recreated in about a month by a smart hacker; and if you're using AWS, you don't have worry about the servers (so don't need a sysadmin/maintenance staff) -- so, theoretically could be comfortably run by a handful of skilled core engineers.
Why are 250 people working at Dropbox? Is Dropbox overstaffed?
> Dropbox is a piece of software that could recreated in about a month by a smart hacker;
A service running on AWS with intra-account deduplication, with signup, referrals, billing and support, Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Blackberry, Android, kindle and web clients, all internationalised into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish (both European and Latin American), and an API with six platform-specific SDKs for Dropbox integration.
Dropbox is also somewhat of an enterprise sales play now. I am sure they have a decent sized sales team to get more companies onboard with teams accounts.
Why are 250 people working at Dropbox? Is Dropbox overstaffed?