On the hiring issue, Google management agrees with your perspective.
This is from an article in yesterday's WSJ:
At the company's first analyst meeting since its August initial public offering, the executives said they are aggressively adding products and staff, but are limited by their own recruitment standards and ability to expand Google's technical infrastructure. The Web-search company, which this month reported fourth-quarter earnings that roughly doubled from a year earlier, is known for a rigorous hiring process, which can include tests of the candidate and more than a half-dozen interviews.
"Can we hire the quality and quantity of people we want to? No," said co-founder Sergey Brin, speaking before several hundred analysts at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. "We're underinvesting in our business because of the limitations of hiring." Google said it has more than 3,000 employees, up from 2,292 in June.
Mr. Brin said Google was "probably 10% to 20% below" where it wanted to be in terms of the level of its technical infrastructure. Google has deployed thousands of computers in data centers around the world, assembled from low-cost parts and linked together by sophisticated software it has written.
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