Yandex N.V. (the parent company of the group) has submitted a report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It says that the staff of Yandex has increased by 16% over the year - now 20.9 thousand people work in the company. At the same time, the number of employees working abroad tripled in 2022 and reached 1.7 thousand people.
Although Yandex's headquarters are in Moscow, the company actively develops various directions in different countries. So, in Africa, a number of European countries, the Middle East and South America, the company develops a taxi service under the Yango brand, a search and navigation in Turkey, online education in the US and Israel, etc.
Last year, Forbes wrote that after the start of military operations in Ukraine, about a hundred Yandex employees moved to Armenia, and the company even had to look for a large room in Yerevan so that all those who left could work in one place. Also in the summer of 2022, Yandex opened a hub in Serbia for 700 employees.