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We have something like thirty on our floor, and there are at least a hundred others in the building in other departments, then there are others in other states, though not as large a number as in our state.
Because we have distinct divisions with discrete products and services, each division has their own team, and there's very little blending between divisions.
It's been a real eye opener working in a commercial programming team, since many areas that I was marked down for when I did my degree are completely ignored in the "real world".
How many others work in large teams?
Douglas Jensen
douglas.jensen@maxgaming.com.au
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That doesn't mean necessarily you are in the team with all.
One can be in MS or Google, yet be part of a team of less than 5.
Or doing research project on his own.
Nuclear launch detected
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Point taken. However, for the thirty on our floor, they're all working on the same project with dependencies all over the place, and although they're divided into five discreet teams, one for UI, one for Web interface, one for talking to the hardware, one for communicating with the various SQL dbs, and one for testing the final output, organisationally speaking we're all one team. No sub-team could perform without the rest of the team.
Consequently, we form a team of thirty.
Douglas Jensen
douglas.jensen@maxgaming.com.au
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We have some XP (eXtreme Programming) projects in our company so our teams have 2, 4 etc. programmers 
The project I own has two programmers but we do not use XP because of time/money ... 
It also depends on the PM (project manager) and customer of course ... ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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WTF?
What are nonprogrammers doing on codeproject?
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The winning personalities, wit, and wisdom [at least of in some of us] attracts countless onlookers to this shoal of knowledge!
There are doubtless amongst these seekers of knowledge, both arcane and mundane. Would you deny them?
Do you do ought than program? Well, it's the same, only different . . .
"And the caterpillar spake the answer the question towards, and none but the wise to find it."
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QA, management (though I don't imagine too many of them read CP), architects, tech writers... the list goes on. Then there are non-technical forums, and sometimes people even change careers but continue to hang out with a great bunch.
We have at least one Electrical Engineer in the Lounge, and some (wannabe) drug lords, full-time conspiracy theorists, and other whack jobs in the Back Room.
Cheers,
Vikram. Current activities:
Films: Philadelphia
TV series: Friends, season 4
Books: Six Thinking Hats, by Edward de Bono.
Carpe Diem.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: I don't imagine too many of them can read CP
FTFY
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
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They need code, urgently.
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The smallest official group I belong to has 7 developers, but we are a part of a bigger group, and that one is a part of a yet bigger one, etc. So the answer could be anywhere from 7 to thousands.
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...the bosses boss, the bosses... you get the idea.
If all you count is the programming, it's 1, me. If you count the guy who goes to meetings, works on plans and schdules (and will probably get promoted for a good job) it's 2. If you count the other guys above hime who help the one doing plans but SAY we're all a team to get the project done, it's 5.
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The manager is only a speed breaker.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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So your org chart resembles a true "chain of command"? -
[BossN]---[BossN-1] --- ... [Boss] --- [You]
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How come ?!
It is one thing to know what to want, second to really want it, third to know how to do it, fourth to be skillful to do it, fifth to actually do it and last but not least to not regret after doing it
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Lots of folks work as sole proprietors in a contracting relationship with other companies.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The pride of being One-Man-Army. 
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Because often, if you want something done properly, you have to do it yourself.
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Sole coders, like me, have no one to chat to about coding. So we are drawn to developer sites in order to fill in on the stuff we're missing out on.
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exactly the same in my case.
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I feel exactly the same, it can be lonely when doing programming on your own and you need someone to interact with, preferably of like-minded people hence hang out all day on CP!!!!  
#define STOOPID
#if STOOPID
Console.WriteLine("I'm stoopid!");
#endif
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This is because they don’t counts the voices in their heads. Otherwise the result will be quite different.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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Because I can't find anyone that would actually want to help me out. Unless you count my aunt, of course. Although, she only does beta testing.
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Because no-one else at school can program beyond copying code from the teacher's printouts
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
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Our department consists of a dozen programmers, at least from an org chart perspective. By product, it varies from half an engineer (a part-time thing) to five or six. None of us are full time on just a single product.
I work on four current products plus The Big New Thing™, along with being Departmental Sh!t-Job Boy. As the DSJB, I get to write all of our internal documentation, maintain our department server, console our SourceSafe data base when it's feeling emo, and in general do all the crap jobs nobody else wants to do properly.
The context switching can be murder; in a given day I've switched back and forth between three or four projects multiple times.
Software Zen: delete this;
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