Facebook to Grow Staff by as Much as 50 Percent This Year

Facebook plans to grow headcount by as much as 50 percent amid a surplus of engineering talent, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg. “No one else has been hiring,” he said. “”It’s been a great environment for us because the economy has helped out.”

Facebook currently has 1,000 employees.

Zuckerberg said the company aims to eventually have 1 billion users, though he declined to give a time frame. He said he expects social networks to become as essential as Web browsers and operating systems.

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