Why do companies like Meta have so many employees, what do they do?

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Why do companies like Meta have so many employees, what do they do?

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It’s a lot like the army. For every soldier that does the actual fighting, you have several people who do all the other work like maintaining supply lines, cleaning/repairing equipment, tending to the wounded, etc.

A big company like Meta is the same way. You have a lot of programmers who do all the coding work, and for every one of them there are people who do all the support work like human resources, accounting, marketing, etc.