In an meet with the Financial Times, the company’s new head of engineering in Europe, Nelson Mattos, said it was his aim to make Google’s European operations similar in size to its US operations through the hiring of many thousand engineers. According to estimates, roughly 500 out of a total of 7,000 Google employees are now in Europe, even though the company is notoriously private about the size of its workforce.

A spokesperson for Google refused to “give out exact numbers”, but confirmed that the company was “hiring more engineers in Europe because there is great talent there”.

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