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Why Google's drowning in talent
Looking at the departure of top Google flack Elliot Schrage for Facebook and concluding that the search engine is suffering a "brain drain" is the laziest journalism on the subject I could imagine. The BBC's take on the subject is predictable, citing the same names — Ben Ling, Ethan Beard, even chef Josef Desimone — everyone else does. The most telling thing is actually a Google spokesbot's programmed response: "We have a deep management pool at Google." The problem at Google is not that its brains are going out the drain. It's that the drain is plugged up, and not nearly enough are leaving. More »
5:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Owen Thomas
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FuckedGoogle is back, and better than ever
The chronicle of everything wrong with Google promises more sources and more dirt on the company. Probably best not to send tips via Gmail. [FuckedGoogle]
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Google's executive rolls outpacing stock growth
When Google debuted on the stock market in August 2004, it had a lean 10 executives at the top. Over the last four years, the number of senior managers kept pace with the growth of the stock. Until recently, when for the first time in the company's history, the ratio of executives to stock price became less than 10:1. The opposite of lean? Bloat.
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Toogle many Googlers? Not if you scream for ice cream
Think Google's mostly mythological 20 percent rule is an over-indulgence? Try mint vanilla and cayenne chocolate ice cream. Because Charles Siegel's unlimited chocolates in the cafeteria aren't enough, the above-pictured Google engineer used her extra time to create the new ice cream flavors for her co-workers. Sounds tasty, but will such confections survive the advent of the piggish DoubleClickers?
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Beautiful, oversexed Google headcount grew 57 percent last year
During Google's fiscal 2007, employee headcount grew from 10,674 to 16,805, according to the company's annual 10-K. That's a 57 percent increase. And all during a year in which CEO Eric Schmidt said the company had begun to watch the headcount for fear of overhiring. Still, I'm not complaining. Just so long as this pace leads to more commencement speech-giving, fiddle-playing, beauty pageant-winning Googlers on campus. And more sex parties off campus. (Photo by Otherdave)
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Bradley Horowitz from Yahoo to Google?
Microsoft's bid for Yahoo has many eyeing the exits. But we hear that Bradley Horowitz, the VP in charge of Yahoo's advanced products group, has been plotting his escape long before Steve Ballmer's bear hug made it trendy. Since late last year, he's been interviewing at Google. It's not clear if he'll actually get the job, though. Google's hiring process is legendarily slow, but Larry and Sergey can get things moving on candidates they're keen on. If Horowitz was really wanted at the Googleplex, wouldn't he be working there by now? Or was Google just waiting to oust Chris Sacca, making room for another voluble professional conference attendee? Update: Bradley, we misunderestimated you. TechCrunch reports Horowitz is working on one of Google's most vaporous projects: its OpenSocial widget platform, alongside Excite founder Joe Kraus.
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A tipster writes from the San Jose airport:
Googlers stranded at the airport during company trip to Disneyland
A tipster writes from the San Jose airport:Google has taken over san jose airport as they all go to disneyland for their company trip. Everyone is in love with them. Best moment...all flights are currently delayed so naturally the quick thinking googlera are buzzing gate agents trying to jump on other flights. Thankfully the airlines are not allowing googlera to change their group assigned tickets. I LOVE watching googlers argue in earnest only to be denied by the polite agent who lets escape a wry smile after each denial, much to the pleasure of nearby nongooglers. What ... Sergey's plane is too busy running NASA experiments to help out?
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Still toogle many Googlers
Google added 889 people this quarter, bringing the total to 16,805. The company notes that the pace of hiring has slowed. Are we supposed to applaud Google for expanding headcount at the rate of 24 percent a year? And what, pray tell, are all those 889 new people doing?
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Spending hours in the cold waiting for Steve Jobs is Googler tradition
After I left the Gizmodo/Ars Technica party, I headed down to the Moscone Center to check out the line of Mac
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Chris Sacca's failed career at Google
A correction on that earlier Chris Sacca item: We're told by a Google insider that Sacca, the blustery big thinker who claims to have led Google's multibillion-dollar blind stampede into wireless spectrum and forced the entire industry to open up, never even made it to the director level at Google. His true title, "head of special initiatives," was a sop to make up for the fact that he never even made it into the lowest ranks of executive management. More »
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Chris Sacca leaves Google, continues do-nothing plan
In a long-overdue move, Chris Sacca, Google's "
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Google laying off contractors to cut costs
"FYI, Google is about to layoff all of their temp/contract recruiters to do some cost cutting," whispers a tipster. We knew it had to happen sometime, but didn't Google exec Marissa Mayer just say laying off surplus employees would indicate Google has become "too dry, too corporate, too much about making money."? Oh, wait. That was her defense for keeping around the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button which costs the company $110 million a year, by some estimates. Mayer's no efficiency expert, so let's not rely on her opinions. Laying off recruiters, people who get paid for adding bodies willy-nilly, is a sensible first step to curing Google's hiring bloat. Next, how about some executives?
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Another Googler takes credit for AdSense
Fortune is reporting that Google engineer Gokul Rajaram is leaving the Googleplex for a stab at his own company. Rajaram's greatest achievement? Oh, this little thing called AdSense, you heard of it? The ad system that places Google ads on blogs and Web 2.0 apps, keeping them financially viable against all business logic? After being hired in 2003, Rajaram supposedly worked to create the ad publishing network which now brings in, Fortune writes, "one-third of Google's revenue." Let's get this straight, people. More »
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It's Google's world, you just live in it
"Have you ever heard of Google?" asks associate product manager Alex Vogenthaler of a smiling man.To purge the planet of this unacceptable answer, Google "seeks brilliant kids and slots them directly into important jobs—no experience necessary," according to Steven Levy in the latest Newsweek. You gotta wonder: Is Google, which supposedly overhired this year, cooperating with such stories to attract even more bright young employees? Or just to rub it in our faces?
"No."
(Photos L-R by Z. Koren / Polaris; J. Silberberg / Panos; P. Blakely / Newsweek)
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Beat on the brats with a baseball bat
"The day before Google went public in 2004, Wayne Rosing, then the vice president for engineering, stood on a stage during a companywide meeting and brandished a baseball bat. He threatened to use it on anyone's car in the Google parking lot that was anything flashier than a 3 Series BMW." — NYT reporter John Markoff details the Googletards' militant ban on conspicuous consumption. Because really, two Boeing jetliners is all anyone needs.
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Google's chief navelgazer
More details are in on Internet godfather and Google "employee" Vint Cerf's comfy search-engine sinecure. After confusing the press and financial analysts last week with an obviously winging-it speech about Google's future in space, Cerf, the company's "chief Internet evangelist," has gone on the record with detailed plans on how to waste shareholder money now that he's stepping down from his role as ICANN chairman. For starters, he's writing a book of poetry. More »
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