Professionally? -- Couple hundreds... well, probably more than average programmer: I worked in HP as Ops, and a big chunk of my job was to help Java programmers to cope with their programming environment. I.e. we (the ops) supplied them with Maven build, and they didn't know and didn't learn how to use it, so every day I had to go cubicle to cubicle fixing the same problems for these people.
You learn to despise people like these for not being able to perform basic stuff on their computers... stuff like look for a file with a particular text in it or opening a file with an extension not recognized by their editor of choice.
So... the campus I was on at that job had three buildings. Two had five floors and another one had I think a dining room on the ground floor and like two more floors, but mostly non-programmers there. A floor had like... four cubicles on the short side and maybe a dozen on the long side. Some cubicles had two occupants, but obviously I didn't visit every one there... Still, just in HP I must've met more than a hundred. I worked all in all in 13 companies over my career. Two of these way too small (<5 people) to count, beside HP, I also worked in Google (through acquisition) and I work in a company of a similar size today (also, through acquisition). Two more companies were 100+ employees (of course, I didn't meet everyone), and the rest are under 100. That's over something close to 25 years.
You learn to despise people like these for not being able to perform basic stuff on their computers... stuff like look for a file with a particular text in it or opening a file with an extension not recognized by their editor of choice.
So... the campus I was on at that job had three buildings. Two had five floors and another one had I think a dining room on the ground floor and like two more floors, but mostly non-programmers there. A floor had like... four cubicles on the short side and maybe a dozen on the long side. Some cubicles had two occupants, but obviously I didn't visit every one there... Still, just in HP I must've met more than a hundred. I worked all in all in 13 companies over my career. Two of these way too small (<5 people) to count, beside HP, I also worked in Google (through acquisition) and I work in a company of a similar size today (also, through acquisition). Two more companies were 100+ employees (of course, I didn't meet everyone), and the rest are under 100. That's over something close to 25 years.