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Google has 35k engineers, out of which maybe 2-3k work on Maps. The 10k number probably refers to total number of workers (mostly contractors) that contribute to Maps: Street View, testing, imagery, notation, etc.

Google has 38,739 employees. 90% of them are engineers? No way. When I was there, MTV campus was like 35% engineering.

From Google Q1 2013 earnings report: "Headcount – On a worldwide basis, we employed 53,891 full-time employees (38,739 in Google and 9,982 in Motorola Mobile and 5,170 in Motorola Home) as of March 31, 2013"

http://investor.google.com/earnings/2013/Q1_google_earnings....

Maybe only a small portion who are actual developers. Most others might be third-party contractors, fixing map errors, street-view and such.

This is correct. According to this article it's 1,100 full-time employees and 6,000 contractors.

http://goo.gl/Xcyu2

The entire Google Bangalore is about Maps it seems. Anyone here to comment on this?