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Only Google can spend this much on what's ultimately a recruiting project.
by deepnotderp 10y ago
Only Google can spend this much on what's ultimately a recruiting project.
- trhway 10y agogiving that acquihires in AI seem to go like $10M/head, Google access to that Rolodex would pay out pretty quickly
- asafira 10y agoYou don't think this would drive data scientists to use Google's cloud platform? I.e., if the most well-known data science competition uses the platform, then they will use it after the fact since it's what they know best. Right?
- soheil 10y agoThey have 500,000 developers, do the math at 30% commission for each assuming a $180k salary that's $50k even if they hire 0.1% of them that adds up to $50k * 500 = 25m they probably paid a few times more than that but not a few hundred times, which therefore makes this a pretty sweet deal for Google assuming the community keeps growing.
- gpawl 10y agodo you have buy kaggle to hire kaggle members?
- soheil 10y agoWell I'm not sure if they expose their members' contact info or if it'd be easy for Google to advertise on their site as effectively.
- throw_away_777 10y agoThat 500,000 developers is a vanity metric. The real number is around 50,000 who have completed a challenge, and around 5,000 who are active on the site. Also of those 5,000 users the large majority are employed somewhere else.