<story><title>Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%</title><url>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-12-04/an-update-on-december-2023-organizational-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrbonner</author><text>I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. I’ve been a subscriber for more than 5 years and the app on the iPhone just gets worse everyday. Why?&lt;p&gt;- daily updates is gone. This is where I can get a snapshot of all new releases from artists I love. I’m not sure if Release Calendar is the new one but I don’t bother to check.&lt;p&gt;- I listen to classical and the song title naming is just subpar. For example, “Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1, J.S Bach, Angela Hewitt, Prelude in C Major is too long to be in the title. Especially, the rat if the album is just a repeat alternate between prelude or fugue and the chord.&lt;p&gt;- recently play list stopped syncing between my phone and my desktop app after 2022 for some reason. Is it a bug or they just stop doing this since it costs more to sync?&lt;p&gt;I probably won’t switch to a different stream service for now as there is not much differences for me to migrate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracerbulletx</author><text>Every damned time this happens someone asks how it&amp;#x27;s possible they have so many employees when it&amp;#x27;s just an app... Spotify owns multiple large podcast studios, has sales people, negotiators, music industry people, lawyers, facility staff, lawyers, marketing, content curators. It is the business engine through which the vast majority of the world consumes music these days. You can quibble about if they have too many engineering employees, but at least get the real number first.</text></comment>
<story><title>Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%</title><url>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-12-04/an-update-on-december-2023-organizational-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrbonner</author><text>I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. I’ve been a subscriber for more than 5 years and the app on the iPhone just gets worse everyday. Why?&lt;p&gt;- daily updates is gone. This is where I can get a snapshot of all new releases from artists I love. I’m not sure if Release Calendar is the new one but I don’t bother to check.&lt;p&gt;- I listen to classical and the song title naming is just subpar. For example, “Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1, J.S Bach, Angela Hewitt, Prelude in C Major is too long to be in the title. Especially, the rat if the album is just a repeat alternate between prelude or fugue and the chord.&lt;p&gt;- recently play list stopped syncing between my phone and my desktop app after 2022 for some reason. Is it a bug or they just stop doing this since it costs more to sync?&lt;p&gt;I probably won’t switch to a different stream service for now as there is not much differences for me to migrate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jes5199</author><text>I think that beyond some relatively small number, engineering headcount functions as a demonstration of wealth - it doesn&amp;#x27;t actually make the product better, it doesn&amp;#x27;t make you ship faster (Brooks&amp;#x27;s law). but it makes you look big and important and justifies your market cap</text></comment>