When I joined FB in August 2018, the company had about 30k employees. It felt large but individual teams didn’t seem to have a lot of excess fat. The hiring growth in recent years has certainly been massive.
Content moderators are mostly external contractors (AFAIK this is still true), so presumably not included in this number.
Content moderators are mostly external contractors (AFAIK this is still true), so presumably not included in this number.