Start with the five-company bench contrast before outreach
Meta 2593, Uber 378, LinkedIn 336, Airbnb 153, Pinterest 142: five records add to 3602. Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer stay outside this page's scope.
How the seat is cut: spelled-out Data Scientist only
The seat is spelled-out Data Scientist only; Senior joins the same family. Five exclusive homepage records total 3602 as of 2026-09-21 PT.
Denominator: sum of current Data Scientist profiles across five exclusive company homepage records, as of 2026-09-21 PT.
Meta 2593 on its exclusive company record leads the pack
Meta sets the top of the range. Its own exclusive company homepage record, www.meta.com, carries 2593 current Data Scientist profiles as of 2026-09-21 PT. Nobody else in the pack comes close, and because the record is exclusive to Meta, that 2593 is not inflated by acquired or parent brands.
Denominator: current profiles on the Meta exclusive homepage record (www.meta.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist, as of 2026-09-21 PT.
Uber 378 holds the second rung
Uber follows on its own exclusive company homepage record, www.uber.com, with 378 current Data Scientist profiles as of 2026-09-21 PT. Against Meta, this rung is narrower under the same seat definition; the difference is bench depth rather than a different scope.
Denominator: current profiles on the Uber exclusive homepage record (www.uber.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist, as of 2026-09-21 PT.
LinkedIn 336 and Airbnb 153 form the mid-pack band
LinkedIn holds the mid band with 336 current profiles on www.linkedin.com, and Airbnb follows with 153 on www.airbnb.com, both as of 2026-09-21 PT. The mid band is often the most under-read rung.
Denominator: current profiles on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) and Airbnb (www.airbnb.com) exclusive homepage records matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist, as of 2026-09-21 PT.
Pinterest 142 closes the pack on its own record
Pinterest closes the tail with 142 current Data Scientist profiles on its own exclusive company homepage record, www.pinterest.com, as of 2026-09-21 PT. A tail bench is not a dismissal: for hiring moves that need a precise seat picture, 142 is still a reachable, comparable pool.
Denominator: current profiles on the Pinterest exclusive homepage record (www.pinterest.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist, as of 2026-09-21 PT.
The pack total of 3602 comes from five exclusive company records
The pack total is 3602 current Data Scientist profiles, the sum of the five exclusive company homepage records: 2593 + 378 + 336 + 153 + 142 = 3602, as of 2026-09-21 PT. Because the five records do not overlap on the seat being counted, the total is a clean addition.
Denominator: sum of current profiles across five exclusive company homepage records, as of 2026-09-21 PT.
Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer stay outside the 3602
Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer titles remain outside the 3602. They may sit beside Data Scientist on the same org chart, but the pack counts only the one spelled-out seat, so the total stays traceable to five exclusive company homepage records as of 2026-09-21 PT.
Denominator: sum of current Data Scientist profiles across five exclusive company homepage records; Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer sit outside this denominator, as of 2026-09-21 PT.
Methodology
Counting rule for this chapter. Every figure is a count of current profiles on one named company's own exclusive homepage record — Meta, Uber, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Pinterest — never a rolled-up parent entity. The seat is kept deliberately narrow: spelled-out Data Scientist, with Senior counted in the same family. All numbers share a single as-of date, 2026-09-21 PT. Source: Metix AI.
| Metric | Value | Denominator |
|---|---|---|
| Meta | 2593 | current profiles on the Meta exclusive homepage record (www.meta.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist |
| Uber | 378 | current profiles on the Uber exclusive homepage record (www.uber.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist |
| 336 | current profiles on the LinkedIn exclusive homepage record (www.linkedin.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist | |
| Airbnb | 153 | current profiles on the Airbnb exclusive homepage record (www.airbnb.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist |
| 142 | current profiles on the Pinterest exclusive homepage record (www.pinterest.com) matching Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist |
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The published pack is fixed at 3602 across the five exclusive company homepage records; the same single-seat scope can be applied to a different company record for your next hiring decision.
FAQ
- Why these five companies and not other Data Scientist employers?
- Because each of the five — Meta, Uber, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Pinterest — has its own exclusive company homepage record, so its bench can be counted directly. Together they hold 3602 current Data Scientist profiles across the five exclusive company homepage records as of 2026-09-21 PT.
- Does the total of 3602 include Data Engineer or Machine Learning Engineer titles?
- No. The 3602 is the sum of current Data Scientist profiles on the five exclusive company homepage records (2593 + 378 + 336 + 153 + 142) as of 2026-09-21 PT; Data Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer titles are counted outside this seat.
- Why does Meta sit at 2593 while Pinterest sits at 142?
- The counting rule is identical for both: current Data Scientist profiles on each company's own exclusive homepage record as of 2026-09-21 PT. Meta's record holds 2593 and Pinterest's holds 142, so the gap reflects bench depth rather than a different scope.
- Can this same Data Scientist seat cut be remade for a company outside the published 3602-person pack?
- Yes. The published data science peer pack stays fixed at 3602 across the five exclusive homepage records as of 2026-09-21 PT, and the same spelled-out Data Scientist seat can be applied to another company record on request.
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