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It's obviously going to be mostly engineering, it's Google.
by qeqeqeqe 7y ago
It's obviously going to be mostly engineering, it's Google.
- ulfw 7y agoSo fly fishing basically :)
- OJFord 7y agoMany 'mostly engineering' companies, including Google, have had and do have entire offices for specific non-engineering roles, such as marketing or whatever, anything which isn't seen to be needed to be in the same location, or perhaps there's a better 'hot spot' for, say marketing in NYC and engineering in SF.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoThe 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-are-programmers 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.
- qeqeqeqe 7y agoThat source you cite literally says that "45% of Google employees are programmers."
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoHe 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.