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Number of Facebook employees 2004-2018
Number of full-time Facebook employees from 2004 to 2018
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How many employees does Facebook have?
Facebook has come a long way since its humble beginnings in a Harvard dorm room. The social network had 35,587 full-time employees as of December 2018, up from just 150 people in 2006. In 2018, total key executive compensation amounted to 105.4 million U.S. dollars. Key executives of the company include CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and CFO David Wehner.Facebook: how it all began In 2003, a sophomore at named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students. He then would pair two of them next to each other on a program called “Facemash” and ask users to choose the more attractive person. At the beginning of 2004, Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook,” a social network dedicated to Harvard students, which later grew to encompass Columbia, Yale and Stanford. The popularity of this new service sky-rocketed and in mid-2004, Zuckerberg interrupted his studies and moved his operation to Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. By 2006, Facebook was open to the general public. In 2018, the company reported almost 55.8 billion U.S. dollars in revenue and a net income of 22.1 billion US dollars. It is also the most popular social network in the world, with over two billion monthly active users as of April 2019.
Facebook employee diversity criticism Like many other tech companies, Facebook has been criticized for having a diversity problem. As of June 2018, tech positions, as well as management roles in U.S. offices were overwhelmingly occupied by men. Furthermore, almost 47 percent of Facebook employees in the U.S. are White and only 3.5 percent are African-American, which has sparked concern regarding representation and equal opportunities. Around 69.7 percent of senior level positions are occupied by White employees and only 3.3 percent by Hispanic-Americans.
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by J. Clement,
last edited
Aug 14, 2019
How many employees does Facebook have?
Facebook has come a long way since its humble beginnings in a Harvard dorm room. The social network had 35,587 full-time employees as of December 2018, up from just 150 people in 2006. In 2018, total key executive compensation amounted to 105.4 million U.S. dollars. Key executives of the company include CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and CFO David Wehner.Facebook: how it all began In 2003, a sophomore at named Mark Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of the university's computer network in order to find photos of other students. He then would pair two of them next to each other on a program called “Facemash” and ask users to choose the more attractive person. At the beginning of 2004, Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook,” a social network dedicated to Harvard students, which later grew to encompass Columbia, Yale and Stanford. The popularity of this new service sky-rocketed and in mid-2004, Zuckerberg interrupted his studies and moved his operation to Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. By 2006, Facebook was open to the general public. In 2018, the company reported almost 55.8 billion U.S. dollars in revenue and a net income of 22.1 billion US dollars. It is also the most popular social network in the world, with over two billion monthly active users as of April 2019.
Facebook employee diversity criticism Like many other tech companies, Facebook has been criticized for having a diversity problem. As of June 2018, tech positions, as well as management roles in U.S. offices were overwhelmingly occupied by men. Furthermore, almost 47 percent of Facebook employees in the U.S. are White and only 3.5 percent are African-American, which has sparked concern regarding representation and equal opportunities. Around 69.7 percent of senior level positions are occupied by White employees and only 3.3 percent by Hispanic-Americans.
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