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NEW YORK (REUTERS) – TikTok has plans to hire about 3,000 engineers over the next three years, mainly in Europe, Canada and Singapore, the company told Reuters on Tuesday (October 27).
The move shows that the popular short video app has not given up on its expansion plans despite lingering uncertainty about its ownership. US President Donald Trump has ordered China’s ByteDance to divest TikTok amid concerns about the security of the personal data it handles.
“To support our rapid global growth, we plan to continue expanding TikTok’s global engineering team, including the addition of approximately 3,000 engineers in Canada, Europe, Singapore and the United States over the next three years,” said a TikTok spokesperson.
The US will remain one of the company’s engineering centers and will hire more staff, the spokesperson added.
There are about 1,000 engineers working for TikTok outside of China, nearly half of them in Mountain View, California.
Reuters previously reported that ByteDance plans to invest billions of dollars and hire hundreds of employees in Singapore, which it has selected as its headquarters in Southeast Asia.
Trump said last month that a preliminary agreement for Oracle and Walmart to take stakes in TikTok had its “blessing,” but a formal agreement did not materialize after ByteDance said it would not give up a majority stake in the application.
A judge will consider on Nov. 4 whether the US government will be able to ban TikTok downloads from US app stores, a move ByteDance warned would effectively ban its use in the US.
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