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Who is Winning the Web Talent War
jg21 writes "Ever since Fortune wrote an article about it, mentions have been occurring hither and yon about how Google is having problems retaining employees, and the latest comes in Web 2.0 Journal, where Dare Obasanjo interestingly tracks and interprets a couple of blog entries that he says leads him to hypothesize that "Google's big problem is that the company hasn't realized that it isn't a startup anymore." Of course Obasanjo works for Microsoft; it will be interesting to see if an equally prominent Googler posts a counter-theory."
I'm waiting for the web to mature, 3.11 for Workgroups.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
.... Is clearly having an effect in bringing talent back to Microsoft.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
ZOMBOcom. Clearly they are winning the talent war.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
There SHOULD be a "glass ceiling" for Marketing and Sales guys
I vote "third ark".
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
And the Microsoft employee claims that Google can't build enterprise-class reliability because of their happy-hacker environment. Oooookay.
"How do you write Microsoft employees so well?"
"I picture a Google employee, and I take away reason and accountability."
I prefer the Web 3.1 alpha blogs.
I, for one, can't wait for Web 95!
You just got troll'd!
Google's momma so fat, when she gets on the internet, she really is on the internet!
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I'm a people person. I deal with the customers so the engineers don't have to. Don't you get that? What the hell is wrong with you people!
And now you spend all day surfing and posting on Slashdot, so what happened? ;-)
Just kidding. My background has been a mix of marketing and technical, so I can appreciate having a good understanding of both sides.
A marketing person can obviously benefit from a good technical background, or even just an *appreciation* and interest in the technical side of things. And vice versa- a technical person who has some appreciation of end user perspective will probably produce better products as well.
Google's momma so fat, she stood on a corner and some cops came running and said "Break it up!"
Sales and Marketing guys are 100% pointless, apart from the money and customers they bring in.