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Those numbers are almost perfectly inline with the growth of Facebook, 17k employees in 2016 to 36k in 2018.

Or 29 if you include WhatsApp.

Those are just SCS numbers. The CNBC article cites all of CMU. Facebook recruits from the math, engineering (EE), and info systems programs as well.

fair point,

2016 - 1 total from math and engineering

2018 - 4 total from math and engineering

Huh, those numbers are lower than I expected. Perhaps CNBC counted grad students as well, which is half the CMU population I think.