Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge 339
prakslash writes "60% of Google's 1900 employees now hold stock options worth at least one million dollars. According to experts in this Reuters article, it is now imperative for Google to maintain its sense of mission. If it fails to do so, a whole slew of employees facing post-IPO burnout and boredom will leave the company to go back to school, start a new company, or join the ranks of high-tech early retirees. Such a mass cashing-out could lead to a decline in Google stock price and intellectual brain-drain. Oh how I wish I worked for Google."
Google has been recruiting in Redmond (Score:5, Informative)
It looks like they are agressively trying to make sure that they keep on top of the talent curve. MS has always made an effort to grab up all the most talented engineers coming out of school. Google might try to give them a run for the money.
Re:Not facing it, in reality (Score:1, Informative)
it takes a little more than a webserver to run google, i would imagine it requires multiple datacenters full of racks & racks of stuff. tape storage, massive raid arrays, redudant servers with load balancing, switches routers links with other datacenters.. etc etc.. then you have to look at the enterprise network lan for the employees home directories, emails, vpn, etc etc..
basically.. you dont know what your talking about.. that's all i'm trying to say
Re:Umm... (Score:5, Informative)
Who really cares about money? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:You wish you worked for google? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:You wish you worked for google? (Score:1, Informative)
résumé, n. SECOND EDITION
1989
({trli}rezyme, {sm}r{ope}zju{lm}me{shti}) Also resume. [Fr., pa. pple. of résumer to RESUME.]
a. A summary, epitome.
1804 Edin. Rev. IV. 98 After a short resumé of his observations on coffee-houses and prisons, Mr. Holcroft leaves Paris. 1861 PATTISON Ess. (1889) I. 31 Some of the papers are mere résumés of English books. 1885 Law Rep. 29 Chanc. Div. 457 The report contained a résumé of the evidence.
b. Chiefly N. Amer. = curriculum vitæ s.v. CURRICULUM. Also fig.
1961 WEBSTER, Résumé.. specif.: a brief account of one's education and professional experience. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 51 If an interview is not convenient at this time, forward your resume, in confidence to Mr. Grossman. 1971 GOLZEN & PLUMBLEY Changing your Job after 35 viii. 86 The Résumé..will vary considerably with the type and level of job and can be the bare bones of a c.v. or a long, narrative account of your main achievements written up with a special bias. 1973 J. RYDER Trevayne (1974) lii. 384 There was an opening. What could look better on a résumé than the White House? 1976 Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 25/1 Please submit detailed resume including personal data, educational background, and work experience. 1979 Tucson Mag. Feb. 88/2 She has added several fine credits to her resume since then, including a Washington D.C. debut this year.
Hence résumé v., to epitomize. rare.
Re:The Way Things Are (Score:3, Informative)
From Google's prospectus:
Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We believe that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users first. We have found that offering a high-quality user experience leads to increased traffic and strong word-of-mouth promotion. Our dedication to putting users first is reflected in three key commitments we have made to our users:
* We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful search results possible, independent of financial incentives. Our search results will be objective and we will not accept payment for inclusion or ranking in them.
* We will do our best to provide the most relevant and useful advertising. Whenever someone pays for something, we will make it clear to our users. Advertisements should not be an annoying interruption.
* We will never stop working to improve our user experience, our search technology and other important areas of information organization.
We believe that our user focus is the foundation of our success to date. We also believe that this focus is critical for the creation of long-term value. We do not intend to compromise our user focus for short-term economic gain.
Re:*Maintain* it's sense of mission? (Score:1, Informative)
Do you even know what Google's mission [google.com] is?
Do you really think the world's information is organized, accessable, and useful at this point? That this can even be done with just a search engine?
What would you have them add to their mission?
Re:You wish you worked for google? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:reminds me of... (Score:1, Informative)