Ask HN: What is the eng headcount of global Google and FB offices?

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This is one part of the puzzle of evaluating global alternatives to SF (and the US in general).

They both list a number of locations: https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/ https://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/

but it's unclear where the bulk of non-American engineering occurs. Does anyone know?

To answer my own question, after having combed through the above careers pages:

Facebook:

- Canada: Nothing.

- Europe: London only.

- South America: Nothing.

- APAC: Nothing listed, though I'm pretty sure they have an engineering office in Hyderabad.

Google:

- North America: Waterloo only ("More than 350 engineers expected").

- Europe: London (biggest), Zurich, Warsaw.

- South America: Nothing.

- APAC: Hyderabad, Sydney, Tokyo.

Zurich is a big non-American engineering office, there is some in Dublin, and London.