Nintendo has published some rather interesting information of the number of fresh graduates it hires every year in Japan.

In 2016, the company brought in 49 graduates from universities and 2 graduates from technical colleges. That has increased to 79 university graduates and 4 technical college graduates in the academic year of 2020.

You can see the full breakdown below:

Year – Number of university graduates for technology related fields – Number of university graduates for office work related fields – Number of technical college graduates for technology related fields – Total graduates hired

2016 – 35 – 14 – 2 – 51

2017 – 42 – 14 – 0 – 56

2018 – 40 – 17 – 2 – 59

2019 – 56 – 23 – 2 – 81

2020 (not yet done) – 57 – 22 – 4 – 83

One potential reason behind the hiring boom could be due to the success of the Nintendo Switch.

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