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[dmix]

Id have the same question why every layoff gets a headline on HN but I guess it's newsworthy when it's a trend.

Otherwise they are pretty similar sized "Big Tech" companies.

Apple: 164,000 employees

Google: 150,000 employees

Amazon: ~800,000 corporate employees (this one was harder to find but the tech/software team is probably similar to above)

[kristianc → dmix]

c. 65,000 of the Apple employees are retail employees though. It’s not really ‘apples for apples’ to compare that with Google’s entirely tech and product headcount.