Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
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Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#2Google will just acqui-hire new talent.
Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#3... then Twitter will IPO, their lock-out period will expire, Twitter brain-drain will start, next hot startup will gain said talent, and the cycle will start all over again.
Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#4Google can buy talent, twitter (being a loss making venture) can only offer imaginary riches.
Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#5I think these numbers need to be scaled by the total number of employees at each company for them to have any real meaning. Consider that Apple and Zynga appear, on the first chart, to be doing similarly poorly in the "keeping key talent" department. However, Apple lost one key employee per 7,000 employees, and Zynga lost one per 250 employees. Obviously larger companies will have more key employees, spread out over more components of the company, and it is natural to expect them to churn (lose or gain) more key employees in absolute terms.
Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#6When you're as large as Google, these kinds of talent losses are natural. Take, for example, Marissa Mayer, disregarding whatever people on HN might think of her (she almost certainly represents one of those 'Key Employee' numbers). She clearly has ambition, and she was clearly not going anywhere at Google, so the only thing to do was to leave.
I also suspect that the challenges Twitter faces are more business-oriented - they probably attract a different type of talent.
TL;DR Google is frickin' huge and just plain different than Twitter. It makes no sense to compare the two this way.
Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#7Statistical power is hard, let's go shopping!
Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#8This feels like handwaving. How is "key employee" defined?
Re: Google is Losing Top Talent; Twitter is Growing It
#9This feels like handwaving. How is "key employee" defined?
Noteworthy enough to be detected by their news sifting algorithm.
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