When your company is a monopoly that has a printing press for money, the normal competitive pressures don't apply. There's no need to aggressively cut head coun

When your company is a monopoly that has a printing press for money, the normal competitive pressures don't apply. There's no need to aggressively cut head count because employee salaries are such a small percentage of their expenses relative to other companies of similar size. Google is like an ivy league school: the hard part is getting in.