He said hiring growth is insane. It's fair to wonder what the heck 5,000 new hires are doing in a company of 10,000. Google makes all its money from ads and t

He said hiring growth is insane. It's fair to wonder what the heck 5,000 new hires are doing in a company of 10,000. Google makes all its money from ads and there's no way they're all involved in the back-end for that. If they're sitting around building cute little javascript applications then Ballmer is most certainly correct that they're insane.