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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 09:50:38
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So I will mark this question as answered cause Cakewalk is practicing the art of
keeping a secret .
There is no matter to not respect that.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 11:01:58
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Maybe they are still counting.....
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 11:15:21
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2017/01/12 17:04:59
bapu
Maybe they are still counting.....
sounds legit
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 11:56:24
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For the record, I don't know how many employees Cakewalk has. But there may be no easy answer if some people are contracted, others are remote employees, some are part-time, etc.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 12:36:45
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Pragi
Thanks for your answers .
Found out via microapps link,
that it might be between 50 - 200 .
Let's split it and say there are 125 employees and annual revenue is 10M. That's $80K per employee. 50 employees makes more sense. Then again it depends what the software designers make. But then again, who cares? Just make music! Walt
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 12:38:34
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Craig, please...
If Cakewalk does not know who they are paying,
I can see why they can't answer the why and when questions either.
I contract with a company with a $20 billion market cap.
They have no clue about a lot of things, but I assure you there is a woman in accounting that knows to the penny what I have been paid.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 15:51:23
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WallyG
Pragi
Thanks for your answers .
Found out via microapps link,
that it might be between 50 - 200 .
Let's split it and say there are 125 employees and annual revenue is 10M. That's $80K per employee. 50 employees makes more sense. Then again it depends what the software designers make. But then again, who cares? Just make music!
Walt
No, that's 1 million for the ceo and $15 per hour for everyone else.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 15:55:26
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I can give a true accounting. Cakewalk has more than one and less than ten thousand employees. 
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 17:21:18
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Pragi
So I will mark this question as answered...
I really wish you hadn't. There's 3 minutes of my life I will never get back 
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 19:10:49
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☄ Helpfulby DrLumen 2017/01/12 13:10:06
microapp
Craig, please...
If Cakewalk does not know who they are paying,
I can see why they can't answer the why and when questions either.
I contract with a company with a $20 billion market cap.
They have no clue about a lot of things, but I assure you there is a woman in accounting that knows to the penny what I have been paid.
Of course. But the question was how many employees does Cakewalk have. Employees are different from independent contractors, who are common in this industry. If someone works three hours a day for a week every six months on a special project, accounting will know what they're paid but that doesn't mean they get a W2 or are even considered employees. They may work with other software companies as well.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 19:17:44
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tenfoot
Pragi
So I will mark this question as answered...
I really wish you hadn't. There's 3 minutes of my life I will never get back
But why so demanding if highlights are normal about 20 seconds ?  PS .The mark is removed.
post edited by Pragi - 2017/01/11 19:55:47
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/11 21:10:03
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Q: How many Cakewalk employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Simple, just use the same equation that's used to determine the number of staff: 
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/12 01:23:23
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Leave it to a mathamatition to develope a complex equation when reguiar people would just use their fingers. 
post edited by soens - 2017/01/12 17:04:39
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/12 10:40:53
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Pragi
But why so demanding
if highlights are normal about 20 seconds ?
PS .The mark is removed.
Haha - I plead guilty to exagerting for effect Pragi :)
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/12 12:28:14
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tenfoot
Pragi
But why so demanding
if highlights are normal about 20 seconds ?
PS .The mark is removed.
Haha - I plead guilty to exagerting for effect Pragi :)
Now you are responceable , puh .....
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/12 13:01:07
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/12 17:07:46
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/12 17:58:04
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 00:06:36
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I see Microapp never came back to comment, but FWIW the model for many companies is becoming increasingly decentralized. There are companies that outsource production to independent factories, outsource support to call centers, and use outside agencies for marketing. Cakewalk isn't at that level but for example during the Great Tech Support Backlog, Cakewalk hired a bunch of extra people to whittle through it, and hired some support people who became employees.
To answer the original question to the best of my knowledge, Cakewalk is, relatively speaking, a small company making a niche product in a small market...as are many companies in this industry.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 03:18:51
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Anderton
I see Microapp never came back to comment, but FWIW the model for many companies is becoming increasingly decentralized. There are companies that outsource production to independent factories, outsource support to call centers, and use outside agencies for marketing. Cakewalk isn't at that level but for example during the Great Tech Support Backlog, Cakewalk hired a bunch of extra people to whittle through it, and hired some support people who became employees.
To answer the original question to the best of my knowledge, Cakewalk is, relatively speaking, a small company making a niche product in a small market...as are many companies in this industry.
A bit pedantic, the OP just wants to know (in general) how many people work there. If I asked how many people live at your house, well, does that include the kids in college, your mother who visits in the summer? No. I did not feel the need to comment further (did you miss me?) but it is really not that complicated. Full time - put in a number Part time - put in a number Consultants - put in a number Interns- put in a number Accounting - put in a number add these all together. Boom...question answered. Thread closed. If you want to break it down further... developers, secretaries, managers, etc. feel free. Do you want the firm to seem bigger, put in the Extra Support People, smaller, leave them out. I am sure there is someone in accounting that could provide the necessary information with ease. I bet they even have one of those new-fangled spreadsheet thingies for taxes where they could just look up the answer.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 03:22:00
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BTW, is the Great Tech Support Backlog considered solved, because I just read a post where a guy has been trying to set up a phone call for 9 months.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 04:59:24
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BTW, is the Great Tech Support Backlog considered solved, because I just read a post where a guy has been trying to set up a phone call for 9 months.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 08:31:08
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microapp
... I did not feel the need to comment further (did you miss me?) but it is really not that complicated.
Full time - put in a number
Part time - put in a number
Consultants - put in a number
Interns- put in a number
Accounting - put in a number
add these all together. Boom...question answered. Thread closed.
Why in heaven's name would you include consultants in the number of employees? Sorry if it seems pedantic, but to me it seems like those are two completely different things. Consultants might work for a dozen companies, and may do nothing at all for CW for months at a time, then put in a week on something their expertise is needed for. How many employees does CW have? To me the answer is clear: (wait for it...) 20-40% more.
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 08:32:28
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Oh no! All of our agents are booked!
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 09:45:37
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Every agent is booked more than every other agent?
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 09:46:12
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Every agent go crash in the loudspekah?
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 10:55:58
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Re: How many (hope it´s no secret) employees has Cakewalk ?
2017/01/13 17:10:47
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microapp
... I did not feel the need to comment further (did you miss me?) but it is really not that complicated.
Full time - put in a number
Part time - put in a number
Consultants - put in a number
Interns- put in a number
Accounting - put in a number
add these all together. Boom...question answered. Thread closed.
Why in heaven's name would you include consultants in the number of employees? Sorry if it seems pedantic, but to me it seems like those are two completely different things. Consultants might work for a dozen companies, and may do nothing at all for CW for months at a time, then put in a week on something their expertise is needed for.
How many employees does CW have? To me the answer is clear: (wait for it...)
20-40% more.
For some time now, many tech companies hire full-time consultants on long term contracts. This allows them to eliminate the benefits a normal full-timer would receive. I am in that class. I have been working for different divisions of the same company since 2003. A guy that worked 1 week and split obviously would not be counted. My background is physics but I work as an engineer and I have to deal with "how much detail is enough" daily. All of these details may make sense in a scientific analysis but in a practical engineering working analysis, a +/- 20% ballpark figure would probably satisfy the OP and you can add or subtract whatever categories suits you fancy. Everyone handles lots of things in everyday life with much less precision than this. And the OP I believe. accepted my original linked estimate of 51 to 200 which is good enough for financial types interested in Cakewalk (the "good enough" estimate) . But this is not really the point. The OP asks a legit question. A simple question, but because he implies it could be a secret, and I reply that it IS a secret, Anderton's obsfucation program kicks in and off we go into spin land. My quoted post was intended to point this out in a satirical manner and not suggest a literal technique. I could give a s**t about how many people work at Cakewalk. All I care about is whether they do their jobs. Do you see how the simple question was deflected into something completely different ?
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