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Re:Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is h... by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @01:13PM (#22283420)
The only mention I've been able to find online suggest that only about 1/3 of Google's workforce are in R&D: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Google-employees-ar...

"This information is most likely buried in Google’s annual report — the last one I could dig up is their 2015 fiscal year end report. According to the paper published by Google Inc and Alphabet Inc, there are 61,814 full-time employees with 23,336 in research and development."

Bear in mind R&D isn't pure developers. It also includes QA and project/program management roles.

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Re:Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is h... by qeqeqeqe on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:26AM (#22287322)
That source you cite literally says that "45% of Google employees are programmers."
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Re:Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is h... by ThrowawayR2 on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:29AM (#22290562)
He cites numbers from Google's previous financial reports (likely to be valid) and then adds a guess of 45% at the end (less likely to be valid). If you want to believe the guess, well, that's up to you.
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