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Google had 156,500 full-time employees in 2021, an increase of nearly 16% year-over-year as compared to the 135,301 full-time employees in 2020. Google's pace o
by shapefrog 4y ago
Google had 156,500 full-time employees in 2021, an increase of nearly 16% year-over-year as compared to the 135,301 full-time employees in 2020. Google's pace of hiring was also torrid in the second quarter of 2022 as the company added 10,000 new employees to its 163,906 workforce - that is only through to July 2022.
These "Layoffs" are awful for individuals, but they are simply a sign that they went on a hiring spree in 2022 - plenty here were talking about the massive pay increases on offer all over the valley with demand off the charts.
So really it isnt sign of pending apocalypse etc.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoIt's best to split 2022 in two. The first half was quite different from the latter. I saw it in practice as I left Google at the end of 2021 and job hunted on and off through the year. The pace of hiring everywhere significantly dropped mid-2022.
- komadori 4y agoWow! I worked at Google circa 2015 and there was an internal web page showing how many employees there were. My recollection is that there were about 50k full-time employees and 50k TVCs then. Even then, it felt crazy how large and incohesive the organisation was. I wonder what it's like now.
- shapefrog 4y agoGOOG ; 2016, 72,053 ; 2015, 61,814 ; 2014, 53,600 ; 2013, 47,756. 2015 is really not that long ago either!
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoI joined end of 2011 and I think there were just north of 20,000 FTEs. When I left end of last year I had been there longer than 95%+ of the 100k+ (I forget) employees, which I found ... odd... since I still felt like a Noogler.
- kyrra 4y agoIt's in Google's 10-Q filing with the SEC btw. https://abc.xyz/investor/ https://abc.xyz/investor/