7/19 GOOG has almost 14,000 employees. For a search engine. What do
they do?! I read one whitepaper from them about analyzing MTBF
for disk drives, which is kind of cool, but low on the profit
generation side of things.
\_ You're right, google doesn't make any money. Kill yourself.
\_ I am not saying that. I am asking how many of those
14,000 employees are relevant. We can build a rocket and a
spacecraft to send on it and send it to Mars with fewer people
than that - and that's with government bureaucracy.
Obviously, there are a lot of people doing good work, but
is there a lot of dead wood already? I checked and Edison
has 12,000. Stanford has 10,000. Amgen has 7,000. Walt
Disney has 6,000 in California. Oracle has 8,000 in
California. 14,000 would make GOOG the 6th largest employer
in all of CA if all the employees worked in CA. The first 5 are
PacBell/AT&T, the Naval Base in San Diego, UCLA, UC Davis, and
Edwards AFB. Most of the top of the list is comprised of
government entities. GOOG isn't in a really manpower
intensive field like, say, McDonald's.
\_ it is interesting you worry about the number of
non optimal people at one of the most successful startups
of all recorded history. please get a life, or
optimally, write out a check for your net work to your
favorite charity, THEN KILL YOURSELF. ok thanks.
\_ I'm not worried. I just wonder if there's really a
need for that many people or if GOOG just hired people
because it could. Even the CEO said that they would
really think hard about hiring much less.
\_ Microsoft has about 30k employees, + 30k contractors,
I think they fired all of the non programmers / managers
and hired all support staff back on as low paid contractor
scum.
\_ What is wrong with you? The pp raises a good question, what
is GOOG doing with all those employees? He didn't say
"GOOG WILL FAIL! DOOM!" Stop putting words in his mouth.
It might also be pointed out, Atari could have also been
called "one of the most successful startups of all recorded
history" at a similar point in it's lifetime, and Atari had
a similar business strategy...
\_ dimwit, is that you?
\_ Wow, you're an idiot. Gmail. Maps. Earth. ADVERTISEMENT
(AdWords, AdSense). Video/YouTube. Huge infrastructure to
store and deliver contents. Where have you been since 2004?
\_ you're right in a sense - most of their money is off ads displayed
with their uber-fast/-relevant search results
\_ Not when you have as many hard drives as google has. |
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