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This is incredible. I think Google is doing a great job of transitioning from a startup to a big company. They have so many things like this, 20% time, and letting tech guys focus on tech and still get promotions. I feel like they are trying to make themselves the Mecca for brilliant technologists. If you aren't a startup with an "us" against the world mentality, you have to add compelling reasons to attract talent.


transitioning? they've had over 20,000 employees for a few years now. you cease to be a startup after you've started up. for them that probably happened around 1998-2000.


IBM has 426,000. AT&T has 294,000. GE has 287,000. Those are big companies at least in the tech community.




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