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Of course not, because it was pulled from his ass. Google had 120k employees in 2019, and 150k in 2021. Even with churn, the OP is way off

Half of Googlers are temps:

so double the numbers for a sense of how many people G actually employs.

TVCs are temps, vendors, and contractors - they aren't typically considered hires. It's covering things like mat/pat leave backfill to kitchen staff.

Oh you sweet summer child

It could still be true if Google fired 70k people. But we’d have heard of that.