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2017/01/13 03:18:51
microapp
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.
2017/01/13 03:22:00
microapp
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.
 
2017/01/13 04:59:24
pwalpwal
microapp
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.
 




CakewalkOh no! All of our agents are booked!

2017/01/13 08:31:08
subtlearts
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. 
2017/01/13 08:32:28
subtlearts
Cakewalk
Oh no! All of our agents are booked!



All your agents are belong to us. 
 
Yes, it's recycle ancient memes day. Yes, I hope it's over soon too. 
2017/01/13 09:45:37
bapu
Every agent is booked more than every other agent?
2017/01/13 09:46:12
bapu
Every agent go crash in the loudspekah?
 
2017/01/13 09:46:21
bapu
Good boy.
 
2017/01/13 10:55:58
jamesg1213
bapu
gswitz
Counting forumites?

Full-Time?
Part-Time?
Noobs?
Spammers?
Kings of Babble-On?
 




Bulldozed.
2017/01/13 17:10:47
microapp
subtlearts
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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