Silicon Valley Sleuth, an insider's view from Silicon Valley
A blog from vnunet.com



Other blogs
PCW Inter@ctive
Your views, your comments, your say

Security Watchdog
Sniffing out IT security
issues

The test bed
The hottest products, news and gossip from PCW's
Labs.

IT Sneak
IT Sneak Blog rummages in the dustbin of IT events.

Backbytes
An irreverent and offbeat look at the lighter side of technology

InterActive Home
Your complete guide to home entertainment technology

Taking Stock
Gags and Gossip from Accountancy Age.

Gizmodo
The gadgets weblog.



« Second Life's booming economy merely a pyramid scheme | Main | AMD and Microsoft showcase Vista (video) »

Your odds for getting Google millions: 0.5 per cent

Google last year hired 5,000 employees. But to find those it had to sift through 1,000,000 applications.

Google_logo The half per cent of the applications that got through still beat the odds of playing the lottery. Except if you rely on Google to get you lottery-style richness.

After all, how much longer do you expect Google's market valuation to continue rising at the current hype rates?

But if you want to work for a cool company that has a model of a space ship and a dinosaur skeleton on its campus, you better write a hell of a resume (and be really good at your job).

330221215_f42742725a


January 25, 2007 at 10:28 PM | Permalink

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/24766/7621345

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Your odds for getting Google millions: 0.5 per cent:

Comments

Post a comment






 

Useful links: About | Privacy policy | Terms & conditions | Top of the page
© Incisive Media Ltd. 2008
Incisive Media Limited, Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX, is a company registered in the United Kingdom with company registration number 04038503