Tech Company Headcounts

Comments focus on discussing, questioning, and expressing surprise about the number of employees at various tech companies like Google, OpenAI, and Twitter, often citing specific figures from sources like Wikipedia or SEC filings.

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Sample Comments

jdrc • Apr 25, 2022 • View on HN

dont they have too many employees?

alberth • Sep 26, 2022 • View on HN

Do you mind if I ask how many employees (order of magnitude) these companies have. Eg 100, 1000, 10000, etc.

rapind • Aug 23, 2012 • View on HN

Wait, why the frik do they have 1k employees?

kelukelugames • Oct 17, 2018 • View on HN

It's a company with 10s of thousands of people. What did you expect?

geronb • Apr 22, 2020 • View on HN

Current employee here. The employee count is actually 7000, half of what you stated. Not sure where you got 14,000.

Jensson • Dec 28, 2023 • View on HN

Do they even have 300k employees? Wikipedia says they have just 140k 2021.

treyp • Oct 3, 2009 • View on HN

i think you mean 20,000 employees, not engineers.

purplelobster • Oct 24, 2012 • View on HN

I'm surprised they had 2000 employees.

hinkley • Jun 14, 2022 • View on HN

6100 employees?? How is that even possible?

kenjackson • May 5, 2023 • View on HN

Were you trying to say 500-1000 of the employees isn't a huge number?