Big Tech: hiring vs. revenue by era
This connected scatterplot follows each company through four eras. Every point is that company’s average annual hiring and revenue growth during the period, preserving the historical shifts that disappear in a single pooled regression.
What does it show?
Each line follows one company through four eras. The latest period moves every company toward slower hiring, but the revenue outcome varies sharply across firms.
Methodology
Uses the same annual headcount and whole-company revenue changes as the pooled Big Tech comparison. For each company and era, it averages the annual natural-log changes in headcount and revenue, then connects the four era averages chronologically. Google Inc. observations through 2014 are joined to Alphabet Inc. from 2015 onward. These era averages are descriptive summaries, not regression estimates, causal effects, or forecasts. Revenue, hiring, acquisitions, outsourcing, prices, capital intensity, business mix, fiscal calendars, and workforce definitions can all change together.