I would like to know this too! Say my team has 40 people on it. Every month at least, someone asks what do "40 people do?" and I take them through it 2-4 people at a time across several lines of business maintaining and improving lots of software.
Would be amazing to see some people break down their teams publicly!
Agreed - it would be a great bit of content-marketing for a recruitment agency. Lever, TripleByte, Muse... one of you sort it out please!
Pandora acquired Ticketfly and The Next Big Sound a couple of years back so they're not just a music streaming company. I still can't tell you what they all do though!
They acquired Rdio as well.
All kinds of integration, sales, licensing deals across a bazillion markets, etc.
They seem to have a decent number of partnerships going on. My Mazda dashboard has Pandora integration built in.
I haven't looked at Pandora in a few years, but IIRC they were a lot like Groupon in that they had a huge sales force catering to local businesses - the type that would traditionally advertise on local radio stations.
It didn't look like a 2000 person company when I went to their office. They do a lot of random platform integrations / clients & testing themselves, which probably increases the engineering team size a bit.
No clue. But the answer to your question is being a public company. Market participants generally expect publicly traded companies (above a certain market cap) to have lots of employees.
Huh? I never heard that being a thing. If anything, investors tend to reward lowering head count.
Probably like 50% sales, 25% HR/Legal/Admin, 25% engineering/ops