16k Workers Over at Google?!

Google just seems to get bigger and more powerful by the day and today I was surprised to hear they have over 16 thousand people working for them!

On Thursday, the company reported gains of 50 percent or so in quarterly profit and revenue from a year ago, beating analyst expectations. It wasn’t a stellar quarter, but it was pretty darn good.

The notable thing was the hiring. The company added 2,130 workers to its roster, bringing the head count to 15,916. What do nearly 16,000 people do at a company that doesn’t make widgets (at least in the hardware manufacturing sense of the word)?

“Half the company has been hired in the last 12 months. That’s chaotic. The new employees find it difficult to figure out how to get things done. It’s not a normal company.”

With the on going pagerank update which only seems to be currently decreasing famous websites or sites that sell text links I think they need the extra manpower. Would you ever work for google?