{"id":448,"date":"2006-02-24T20:34:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/25\/timeline-employee-headcounts-for-google-yahoo-and-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T00:14:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T23:14:24","slug":"timeline-employee-headcounts-for-google-yahoo-and-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/timeline-employee-headcounts-for-google-yahoo-and-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline: Employee Headcounts for Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey check this post out below, I know it’s directly copied from Gabor Scelles Blog<\/a>, but I just fealt the need to post it here as well, full credit goes to him of course! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

It’s good to keep an eye on headcount when comparing companies. The number of employees you have pretty much defines what you can do: How many products can you develop and maintain, and how many shrink-wrapped software boxes or click-through banners can you sell?<\/p>\n

I went out and collected some statistics for the three major Internet players: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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All of these companies have been in exponential growth mode since the year they started. It’s surprising to me that Microsoft is more than 6 times bigger than Yahoo and 11 as big as than Google<\/strong>, at least in terms of employees.<\/p>\n

Also, Microsoft has been around for ages and consumes much of the timeline. Here’s a graph for just Google and Yahoo:<\/p>\n

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Google is growing much faster than Yahoo these days. Over the last two years, Google’s average employee growth rate has been 100%, while Yahoo’s was at 34%, and Microsoft’s was at 10%. If the current growth rates continued,<\/p>\n