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How many people do you think it takes to make a single product? From what you listed, they average 26 employees per product. The products aren't released at the same time. Most of their products are the same, with minor differences depending on the language they're supporting. IMO they have too many employees...

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Just to maintain, evolve, support and do release testing of only one product: Intellij IDEA, checking the thousand of details and flows, between frameworks and platforms it runs, to me, it seems a good amount of work. And a company have more departments than Software Development: Finance, Administration, RH, Marketing, etc.

But a lot (the majority even, maybe?) of JetBrains' products are just IDEA plus some extra language-specific tooling. So presumably they have a relatively large number of people hacking on the core of the whole product line, IDEA, and then just a small number of people to add whatever language-specific polish each IDEA-based product requires.

the changes for each new release of IntelliJ IDEA gets smaller each year

there's a reason they moved to a subscription model

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