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Re:Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? by saagarjha on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:54AM (#21904269)
> If google finds a way to run itself with 5k developers instead of 30k, that's a scary change

Google has a lot more than this, FWIW.

Re:Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? by dgoldstein0 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:57AM (#21904291)
what's the actual number? I tried Googling it, and the first few results are giving me numbers from 5+ years ago (around 20k)
Re:Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? by saagarjha on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:08AM (#21904341)
I’ve generally heard that Google is about half to two-thirds engineers, and they have around 100,000 employees. I’m fairly sure they have the most among FAANG.