It’s important for Google not to hire all the smart people on the market… to leave some for everyone else. Bradley Horowitz, one of the vice-presidents in charge of applications for the group, said this was an engineer’s response to his proposal to hire a handful of good people. According to Horowitz, the engineer explained: “These people are actually important to have outside of Google. . . It’s better for the ecosystem to have an honest industry, as opposed to aggregating all this talent at Google.”
The defence of an honest industry, a justification for the many departures of talented people to the competition, or a strategy to actually promote the latter so as not to be accused of being a monopoly? Stay tuned.
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