Other than "because we can, and then brag about it" - why the f*ck did Google hire so many people to begin with? Was top management utterly oblivious to how many people were actually [not] needed to run the parts of the biz that mattered? Did they have some "if we hire all the good people, our competition will be ruined by lack of talent" delusion strategy?
I assumed they were just using near-zero interest rates to make bets on future growth/start all the projects they could/vacuum up all the workers they could and they always planned to scale down if the economy pushed them to?
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Other than "because we can, and then brag about it" - why the f*ck did Google hire so many people to begin with? Was top management utterly oblivious to how many people were actually [not] needed to run the parts of the biz that mattered? Did they have some "if we hire all the good people, our competition will be ruined by lack of talent" delusion strategy?
I assumed they were just using near-zero interest rates to make bets on future growth/start all the projects they could/vacuum up all the workers they could and they always planned to scale down if the economy pushed them to?