Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'

eldavojohn writes "Steve Ballmer spoke to the Seattle PI this week, commenting that Google's pace of employee growth is 'insane,' and the company has few successful businesses outside of Internet search and advertising. He referred to Google's non-search efforts as 'cute.' Google's current number of employees is nearly doubling each year. 'I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.' Mr. Ballmer went on complain that, in general, competition for good programmers has become an issue. Even 'hedge funds' are looking for skilled coders, making the HR fight between the two companies that much more challenging."

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Scary

[LibertineR]

Almost each of your points is demonstrably WRONG. Yet, you seem so sure.........

Whatever, wish I had more time.

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[ucblockhead]

Keep in mind that Google never complains about not finding people.

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[bl8n8r]

The same monkey that was going to fucking kill google and cannot get enough of the developers and has been bald since windows 1.0