Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 16, 2007 @02:39AM from the doubling-the-doubled-growth-rate dept.

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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In other news by Guaranteed · 2007-03-16 02:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Microsoft's Xbox divisions posts a $289 loss in the second quarter.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid= 22385
Re:Meh... by cayenne8 · 2007-03-16 03:37 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster."
Actually, he got it right the first time with the Telecaster....
:-)

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Re:Robotic, cookie cutter hiring by Dan+Hayes · 2007-03-16 05:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ouch at the FizzBuzz thing - there's an incorrect response about 10 posts in! That's quite spectacularly crap.