Disclosure: I work at Google. As others said, there's no data on how many people Google or Alphabet are going to hire (postings are not 1:1 with individuals).

Disclosure: I work at Google. As others said, there's no data on how many people Google or Alphabet are going to hire (postings are not 1:1 with individuals). Alphabet apparently hired 8,057 people in FY 2017 [1]. Note that while HTC had ~2000 people come over [2], that was not closed within FY 17. [1] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2017Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2017Q4_alphabet_earnings_releas... [2] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-htc-employees-acquisition-risky-2017-9 http://www.businessinsider.com/google-htc-employees-acquisit...