Tech Engineer Proportions

Discussions center on the percentage of software engineers in large tech companies like FAANG and Tesla compared to total staff, and whether specific engineer numbers are significant relative to the global or US engineer pool.

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bradlys Sep 21, 2020 View on HN

Considering that a significant (half or more?) portion of their engineers are from other countries... is it not still the 1%?

falsedan Mar 29, 2017 View on HN

Google et al. are huge but they're << 10% of engineers.

Aperocky Apr 17, 2020 View on HN

I saw 19/6563 and only 6 of them are software engineers.I wouldn't say that is a bunch in this time, more like regular process.

lumost Jul 25, 2025 View on HN

The percentages in the field are skewed, FAANG employ a vast number of engineers.

azeirah Jan 23, 2023 View on HN

Are the 12k people all software engineers?

richardwhiuk Feb 7, 2023 View on HN

I'd be hugely surprised if they had more than 40% engineering.

mgh2 Jul 29, 2022 View on HN

About 50%. In tech it is less, most were engineers

subsubzero Apr 9, 2020 View on HN

That number ~150 engineers seems way too small, at most tech companies I worked at, engineering comprises 40-50% of the staff, if it doesn't something would seem very off. Engineering in this case is product, platform, IT, hardware etc.

bagels Mar 30, 2023 View on HN

Not that extreme, maybe 1% of engineers?

sgibat Jul 17, 2014 View on HN

Is this going to bloat the Software Engineer market? Do we know what percentage are developers?