Bloomberg says it's 6% of the global workforce: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-20/google-cu...

It's just over 6%, the company is much bigger now than in 2021 due to hiring and the Mandiant acquisition.

Mandiant was only 2-3000 people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandiant.

Oh ok, that's quite a bit smaller than I thought. Thanks.

I saw a comment on the recent MS layoffs of 10k, after they hired 40k in the last 2-3 years (iirc), so they were still up 30k jobs...

The most reliable source of information is the latest earnings report [1], which says 187k as of end of Q3. I guess we'll see in a few days what the number was at the end of the year.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q3_alphabet_earnings...

The big companies hired so many new engineers over the past fee years, I wonder how many of them just abused the remote work to score multiple jobs? Like where did all those jobless engineers come from on such short notice?

Is this possible in the US? In many European countries you couldn't do that unless one of the companies employs you "unofficially" (thus breaking labor and tax laws).

Why can’t you have more than one job in Europe? But it sure is possible in the US, multiple posts here bragged about scoring multiple remote jobs in parallel