Google, the flagship subsidiary of Alphabet, employs roughly 180,000 people across product development, advertising, cloud services, and a wide array of emerging technologies. Recent staffing activity shows about 9,800 new positions filled and close to 7,400 departures, resulting in modest net growth. The scale of its workforce reflects the breadth of Google’s offerings, from search and advertising to hardware, artificial intelligence, and enterprise cloud solutions.
Engineering is Google’s largest organization with about 79,700 employees, representing just over 44 % of total headcount and underscoring the company’s technology-centric model. Business Management follows at around 26,100 employees, while Marketing & Product and Sales & Support staffs stand at roughly 20,500 and 18,000, respectively, highlighting balanced investment in go-to-market functions. Finance & Administration, IT, Operations, Human Resources, and Program & Project Management collectively account for the remainder, each ranging between 2 % and 5 % of the overall workforce. Hiring outpaced attrition across most functions, pointing to steady expansion without dramatic shifts in departmental mix.
Google’s talent footprint is highly diversified. Approximately 24,000 employees work in San Francisco, the largest single hub, followed by about 13,000 in New York and nearly 8,000 in Mountain View. Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, London, Bengaluru, and Chicago each host sizable teams, though none individually exceed 6,000 people. A significant share—more than 50,000 employees—operate from other global offices or remote locations, illustrating Google’s distributed approach to tapping worldwide talent pools.