Google’s Hiring Again
Google to Go on Hiring Spree from MediaWeek reports Google is looking to hire an additional 500 sales people in the near future, as well as bulk up their engineering team and finance, product management and human resources departments. 2009 and parts of 2008, were touch times for most companies, including Google. Google laid off […]
Barry Schwartz on April 8, 2010 at 8:54 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google to Go on Hiring Spree from MediaWeek reports Google is looking to hire an additional 500 sales people in the near future, as well as bulk up their engineering team and finance, product management and human resources departments.
2009 and parts of 2008, were touch times for most companies, including Google. Google laid off 300 DoubleClick workers in 2008 and then in January 2009, Google reportedly dropped 10,000 contractors and in March they cut 200 sales jobs globally.
So it is nice to see Google hiring again at these levels.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.