How Many People Work at Coursera? Headcount and Employee Trends

Coursera is an e-learning company that partners with universities and industry to deliver online courses, certificates, and degrees. The company employs 1,456 people, with 92 new hires and 141 departures reflected in the dataset. Headcount spans technical, go-to-market, and corporate functions that support its global education platform.

Engineering is the largest team with 378 employees (about 26%). Marketing and Product follows with 300 (about 21%), and Sales and Support totals 198 (about 14%). Core corporate functions include Finance and Administration at 138 (about 9%), Business Management at 112 (about 8%), Information Technology at 106 (about 7%), and Human Resources at 68 (about 5%), with Operations at 46 (about 3%) and Education at 36 (about 2%); another 74 employees (about 5%) are categorized as Other. Together, Engineering, Marketing and Product, and Sales and Support account for roughly 60% of the workforce, indicating a substantial concentration in product development and customer-facing roles.

Coursera’s workforce is widely distributed, with 955 employees categorized under Other locations (about 66%), indicating a broad global footprint beyond the named hubs. The largest named concentration is in San Francisco, CA, with 161 employees (about 11%). Additional hubs include Toronto, Canada (75); Bengaluru, India (52); New York, NY (51); Mountain View, CA (42); Delhi, India (37); London, UK (28); Gurugram, India (28); and Washington, DC (27). The distribution shows a mix of U.S., Canadian, Indian, and UK presence alongside a substantial number of employees spread across other cities and regions.