At Meta’s scale, that’s about 1 employee for every 45,000 monthly active users across their platforms. Many of those MAUs are using multiple Meta products.
I’m more surprised that people think this is too many employees. They’re serving a significant portion of the entire world’s population with their products. Of course they’re going to need a lot of employees.
But then, Valve was one of the most profitable company per employee count.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation
[2] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/valve-reveals-steams-monthly-a...
The question that people have is, "what do the employees actually do?" It's because most people have no idea how labor intensive tech is, nor do they understand the math behind the revenue that 45k active users generate. That said, when you look at 80,000 people "to operate a website" it sounds ridiculous (even thought it probably is not).
Poor/thrifty users take the same amount of work as users who click on ads and buy stuff.