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?