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."
Many managers at Google got their jobs just by having low employee numbers and are otherwise unqualified.
(from glassdoor.com)
Sounds like Slashdot, submissions by people with low UIDs are given preference. But experience should count for something, but definitely not as much as it tends to.