Comments on: Google, Yahoo and The Hiring Game http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:14:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Baron VC http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131630 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:50:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131630 Yahoo Does Acquisitions Right, Can Google Do the Same?…

This article at ReadWriteWeb reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to write. Despite the organizational woes of the mother ship, Yahoo’s done a really good job of growing their acquisitions. I was initially worried when I saw some of …

]]> By: Search Engines WEB http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131629 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:19:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131629 hmm… Could it be that Yahoo is focussed more on web 2.0 Aquisitions – while Google is focussed on CREATING and Developing Labs projects – that accounts for their differences in hiring.

Yahoo is still higher on PageViews than Google according to the top web traffic tracking companies – so, they are still getting substantial traffic

]]> By: Ex-Googler http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131628 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:14:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131628 I don’t get it, why is Google hiring even more people? It doesn’t know what to do with the people that it already has. And it certainly doesn’t know how to manage the 50-80+ new people that they hire every single week.

I agree with dave…given how much money earlier Googlers are about to make, we’re going to see more and more leave for startups because of the internal disarray becoming more obvious with every new hire.

]]> By: Matt http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131627 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:30:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131627 One word for Google… Powerset.

]]> By: dave http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131626 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:46:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131626 that same analyst fails to note that 2007 is the first serious vesting cycle for many early google employees…i anticipate several senior level departures at the marzipan layer across all core functions…as for yahoo, there’s already a brain drain and that reorg only makes things worse BUT they appear to have a more serious interest in actionable r&d than even elgoog…my bet is on yahoo for retention of top level talent, while goog loses top talent to myriad startups and early retirement…

]]> By: Joel Cheesman http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131625 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:34:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/google-yahoo-and-the-hiring-game/#comment-131625 Amazing how fast fortunes can change in today’s world. Just a few years ago, eBay, for example, was untouchable. Now the only buzz you hear about the auction site is of the disarray kind.

Makes me wonder if Google will still be “Google” even 5 years from now, let alone the YouTubes and MySpaces of the Web.

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