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I am curious, and somewhat embarrassed that I don't know what all these Facebook employees in Austin (and other cities) actually do. Sell advertising? Review content? Support? It seems like a lot of employees for software development or R&D. The vast majority of content there is user generated or aggregated from news sources, so it doesn't seem like it would be that (vs. Netflix or something).

Now Amazon and Apple, I can understand why they would need boatloads of employees. Google has Android and Chrome and self-driving cars, etc... so that explains their headcount. Facebook's rather large headcount (>25K total) is baffling to me, and I know that's because I'm missing something...