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Comment by beckingz | Hacker News Reader

up 7000 employees despite layoffs.

I thought this was interesting, so I compared it against their count last quarter (instead of last year) and they are indeed down.

  - In Q4 2022 [1] they had 190,234 employees.
  - In Q1 2023 [2] they had 190,711 employees.
  - This quarter Q2, they have 181,798 employees.

So they are down almost 9000 employees from last quarter, close to their 12K layoff number.

they could fire half their workforce and they'd be back to 2019 numbers

If you have to let leave some apples without scaring the other ones, doing it while everybody else is doing it is a great chance