Google Tries Not To Be a Black Hole of Brilliance

theodp writes "Google says it's declined to pursue awesome job prospects to avoid an over-concentration of brilliance at the search giant. Speaking at the Supernova conference, Google VP Bradley Horowitz said the company intentionally leaves some brainpower outside its walls: 'I recently had a discussion with an engineer at Google and I pointed out a handful of people that I thought were fruitful in the industry and I proposed that we should hire these people,' said Horowitz. 'But [the engineer] stopped me and said: "These people are actually important to have outside of Google. They're very Google people that have the right philosophies around these things, and it's important that we not hire these guys. It's better for the ecosystem to have an honest industry, as opposed to aggregating all this talent at Google."'"

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Re:He's right, and you know it

[TheGratefulNet]

for all their consideration for the health of the industry,

modded insightful?

you must be new here. they are a CORPORATION, amazingly greedy and working ONLY for their own self interests.

(I'm about to vomit from your comment, it made me that sick)