“Google Inc. is fighting off Facebook Inc. and other fast-growing Internet firms that are poaching its staff, a reversal for a company that has long been one of Silicon Valley’s hottest job destinations,” Amir Efrati and Pui-Wing Tam report for The Wall Street Journal.
“Among the defectors are engineers such as Cedric Beust. The 41-year-old spent six years at Google working on projects like the mobile operating system Android,” Efrati and Tam report. “But by this year, ‘”I was ready for something different and more challenging,’ he said.”
MacDailyNews Take: Tired of copying Apple already? Imagine how short a stint he would have completed at Microsoft.
“Much of the most recent hiring battles have centered on Facebook and Google,” Efrati and Tam report. “According to data from LinkedIn, 137 Facebook employees previously worked at Google. Among Google’s recent departures to Facebook: Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps. Google Chrome architect Matthew Papakipos, Android senior product manager Erick Tseng, and top Google ad executive David Fischer also decamped to Facebook earlier this year.”
Efrati and Tam report, “To help attract new recruits and preempt defections, Google Tuesday said it was giving a 10% raise to its more than 23,000 employees.”
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they should offer them all free iPhones.
I heard it’s 22,999 employees. They fired they guy that leaked the memo.
Do No Evil, jump off the ‘SS DNE’ if you really do not wish to do evil.
Perhaps this is a sign that even Google’s employees know the company has gotten off track from what they used to be.
There is very little employer loyalty among hi-tech workers, especially the younger ones.
@m159: And why should there be, when employers’ loyalty to their employees is so little? Outsourcing to India, and downsizing so the bosses get bonuses for “saving the company money” ring any bells?
The Goog jumped the shark some time back & the worker bees in the know are departing to greener pastures. Methinks Social Media has also went past the saturation point.
I think the proper use of grammar has “also went past the saturation point”!
@m159:
With good reason. In general, what loyalty have employers shown their employees? Google and Facebook actually aren’t good examples because they are outliers on many levels, from location cost of living to company age/growth. In short order, Google and Facebook will act just like every other shortsighted corporation:
For knowledge workers, most incentives are short-term, and work/life balance is ignored. No 40-hour workweek here – electronic tether keeps you on the clock 7 days a week. Demand results on unrealistic schedule plans that include no consideration for players who don’t speak your language fluently or live on the same continent, marginalize quality of work for sake of “process efficiency”, beat the worker under threat of outsourcing, and then when the project is over, throw away the worker. When a new project comes along, hire a young worker who costs less. No regard for long-term knowledge capture, efficiency gains, or training costs. And it’s not just “tech” companies, it’s everywhere.
Amazin1. Love it!!!
employee loyalty is marketing mumbo jumbo. if you pay your people well, and don’t treat them like dirt, they’ll stick around. Otherwise businesses have only themselves to blame.
employee loyalty is easy to earn. Just don’t be google. erm, don’t be evil. same thing.
Royalty has nothing to do with it. The kind of talent Google wants to retain simply do not care for matured products for long. If you did not need a job or want the money, what project would you want to work on at Google? Babysit blogger? Tweak the Gmail UI some more? What new experience has Google created lately? google and Microsoft now only attract lifers who want to retire with more security than govs nowadays.
“Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps. Google Chrome architect Matthew Papakipos, Android senior product manager Erick Tseng, and top Google ad executive David Fischer also decamped to Facebook earlier this year.”
Wow, so Google didn’t have any new challenges for those guys anymore. I need to pay more attention to that young kid, what’s his name, F. Book or something and his co. Suckerberth. Maybe I could make quick bucks here.