Google parent company Alphabet added nearly 9,000 new employees in the past year
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Google parent company Alphabet has added nearly 9,000 employees to its payroll over the past year. 
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The company finished Q1 with a headcount of 64,115 employees, according to its earnings report. That compares to 55,419 employees in the year-ago period. And it's up a couple thousand from the 61,814 that Alphabet had just a few months ago, at the end of 2015.
Alphabet is one of the internet industry's most dominant companies, generating $20.3 billion in the first quarter. But investors are worried about its spending.
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The increasing headcount is especially interesting since Alphabet has slowed down its once feverish acquisitions of other companies in recent months.
Facebook, by contrast, finished 2015 with 12,700 employees.
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