Nintendo Has Been Increasing Its Number Of New Employees Every Year Since The Switch Launched

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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