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Google, Microsoft In Epic Hiring War

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-raining-resumes dept.

natecochrane writes "Looking for a new job? Then Google and Microsoft have 6200 roles globally this quarter up for grabs, the first salvos in a costly war for talent. Google alone will hire 6200 engineers, executives and sales staff this year — its biggest intake ever. This story details where the biggest bucks and most fun jobs are to be had and how you can apply for them. There's even a job for an Xbox PR person — fancy being paid to play with toys all day?"

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  1. Positions in Sydney by belthize · · Score: 3, Funny

    Drat, I might have applied for one of those network security positions but sadly
    a) I don't live in Australia
    b) I have no pen testing experience.

    I've always just used them on an as needed basis. I guess I could flub my way through an interview extolling the benefits of ball point vs felt tip and maybe make up some interesting war story of the good old days and ink wells. Ultimately I doubt I could penetrate the Australian job market.

  2. Obligatory XKCD by wintercolby · · Score: 1, Funny

    There's an xkcd comic about applying at Google: http://xkcd.com/192/

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    Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. --Aldous Huxley
  3. Re:numbers?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, it implies, you infer. Second, it doesn't imply that at all, and if you infer that then you're a fucking idiot.

  4. Re:numbers?? by kmdrtako · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, let me spell it out for you–

    Google + Microsoft = 6200 this quarter.

    Google = 6200 this year ~== 1550 per quarter.

    Which might suggest that Microsoft will hire the other 4550 this quarter.

    Does that help?

    (No, I'm not the AC that called you a f*cking idiot.)