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Google pays 1-3M per engineer in all sorts of acqui-hires. This netted them ~100 engineers of the kind that Max can attract (i.e. top tier). It's a lot faster
by webwright 15y ago
Google pays 1-3M per engineer in all sorts of acqui-hires. This netted them ~100 engineers of the kind that Max can attract (i.e. top tier). It's a lot faster than acquiring 50 $2m companies that have 2 engineers each.
- marcamillion 15y agoInteresting perspective...makes sense, when you put it like that.
- neilc 15y agoI think this approach makes sense only if the acquired engineers stay at Google (and are significantly more productive than the average talent Google can acquire through less expensive channels). I suspect that many of the folks working for startups prefer being at small companies: if they wanted to work for Google they already would be.