Google has:
+ 1233 job openings listed in the U.S.
+ 67 in Canada, Caribbean, South America
+ 269 in Asia
+ 388 in Europe, Middle East, and Africa
That’s 1957 positions at Google (aka job openings) listed as of today.
Remember, posting are added and removed constantly, so these are more estimates than anything else. Also, they do not include listings in the student category, Japan, and China. Finally, these totals are likely skewed by the fact that multiple hires might be needed for a position listed only once.
Source: resourceshelf.com
Google has about 2000 job openings
July 7, 2007, 7:33 amTwo top Google engineers leave
July 7, 2007, 7:28 am
Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex — this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.
Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, two of the masterminds behind Google Maps and several other Google products, have joined the firm as "Entrepreneurs in Residence." This gives them paid positions to hang out at Benchmark's offices on Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road and think through starting a business. They have a specific idea in mind, but are secretive about it, telling VentureBeat only that it’s a "consumer Internet" company.
Benchmark has been loading up on EIRs lately — we reported last week on the hiring of Mike Cassidy for a similar position — in part because it is more aggressively investing in earlier companies. It now has four EIRs, up from two on average over the years. The EIR arrangement lets the firm build goodwill with entrepreneurs. In return, Benchmark expects entrepreneurs will look to Benchmark as their first source of funding. However, that requirement is not part of the contract, stresses Peter Fenton, a Benchmark partner.
Fenton looked up Bret Taylor last year. The two stayed in touch, and three months ago, Taylor indicated he was ready to start a company. Jim Norris was always in the picture, too, because he and Taylor are virtually inseparable. Both 26, they studied together at Stanford, sharing most of the same computer science courses, and have stayed together since.
There were six Google employees responsible for creating Google Maps. Taylor was the overall project leader, while Norris was responsible for the Web server side of the product. Google Maps became hugely popular, one of the first to be syndicated widely across the Web in the form of “mashups,” and is now stitched inside of tens of thousands of sites. The two joined Google in 2003. While early enough to benefit them considerably at the IPO, it wasn’t enough to give them the many millions that earlier employees enjoyed. They’re likely to want help with venture backing for their company, they said.
However, they said the move to Benchmark is really about the experience the firm offers. “It’s not about the money,” said Norris. While the pair are confident in their ability to build their idea, they want help learning what it takes to run a business, he said.
Like Cassidy, the duo will be able to sit in on pitches made by other entrepreneurs to Benchmark. Is there a risk they will steal ideas, as one commenter asked in our Cassidy post? Benchmark’s Fenton said their role will be disclosed to entrepreneurs, who will have the option of requesting that they not partake of the pitch. Fenton said most entrepreneurs welcome the opportunity to have EIRs in on meetings; it adds to the discussion.
Aside from Google Maps, the pair also worked on the Google Maps API, and several products that emerged from the group, including Local and Satellite Maps. In 2006 they each received the Google Founders’ Award, the highest honor given a Google employee, for their work on maps.
Benchmark’s Fenton said the plentiful capital available in Silicon Valley for mid-stage financings makes it more lucrative for Benchmark to invest in earlier stage companies. Valuations are low when companies are young, so Benchmark pays less to own a stake in those risky seed-stage companies. When those companies mature, they have an easy time raising money from other venture firms.
Source: venturebeat.com
Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, two of the masterminds behind Google Maps and several other Google products, have joined the firm as "Entrepreneurs in Residence." This gives them paid positions to hang out at Benchmark's offices on Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road and think through starting a business. They have a specific idea in mind, but are secretive about it, telling VentureBeat only that it’s a "consumer Internet" company.
Benchmark has been loading up on EIRs lately — we reported last week on the hiring of Mike Cassidy for a similar position — in part because it is more aggressively investing in earlier companies. It now has four EIRs, up from two on average over the years. The EIR arrangement lets the firm build goodwill with entrepreneurs. In return, Benchmark expects entrepreneurs will look to Benchmark as their first source of funding. However, that requirement is not part of the contract, stresses Peter Fenton, a Benchmark partner.
Fenton looked up Bret Taylor last year. The two stayed in touch, and three months ago, Taylor indicated he was ready to start a company. Jim Norris was always in the picture, too, because he and Taylor are virtually inseparable. Both 26, they studied together at Stanford, sharing most of the same computer science courses, and have stayed together since.
There were six Google employees responsible for creating Google Maps. Taylor was the overall project leader, while Norris was responsible for the Web server side of the product. Google Maps became hugely popular, one of the first to be syndicated widely across the Web in the form of “mashups,” and is now stitched inside of tens of thousands of sites. The two joined Google in 2003. While early enough to benefit them considerably at the IPO, it wasn’t enough to give them the many millions that earlier employees enjoyed. They’re likely to want help with venture backing for their company, they said.
However, they said the move to Benchmark is really about the experience the firm offers. “It’s not about the money,” said Norris. While the pair are confident in their ability to build their idea, they want help learning what it takes to run a business, he said.
Like Cassidy, the duo will be able to sit in on pitches made by other entrepreneurs to Benchmark. Is there a risk they will steal ideas, as one commenter asked in our Cassidy post? Benchmark’s Fenton said their role will be disclosed to entrepreneurs, who will have the option of requesting that they not partake of the pitch. Fenton said most entrepreneurs welcome the opportunity to have EIRs in on meetings; it adds to the discussion.
Aside from Google Maps, the pair also worked on the Google Maps API, and several products that emerged from the group, including Local and Satellite Maps. In 2006 they each received the Google Founders’ Award, the highest honor given a Google employee, for their work on maps.
Benchmark’s Fenton said the plentiful capital available in Silicon Valley for mid-stage financings makes it more lucrative for Benchmark to invest in earlier stage companies. Valuations are low when companies are young, so Benchmark pays less to own a stake in those risky seed-stage companies. When those companies mature, they have an easy time raising money from other venture firms.
Source: venturebeat.com
Google Threatens to Close German Gmail Due to Local Law
July 7, 2007, 7:17 am
According to information from Heise, Google warned that they might disable Gmail in Germany as last fallback should the German government maintain its position in regards to a newly passed law on record-keeping and supervision of internet traffic. According to this law, email services here will be forced to maintain personally identifiable records attached to email accounts. What exactly this might mean for Google I don’t know, but perhaps it would result in Gmail having to start requiring full addresses (and perhaps even having to verify an address by sending a snail mail to the user).
As usual in these circumstances, the law is pushed through in the name of fighting “terrorists.” But Heise quotes Google’s Peter Fleischer to have said that this law goes against Google’s policy to offer anonymous email accounts (actually, you need to give your first and last name upon Gmail sign-up, but then again you can fake that). Peter says, “Many users around the globe make use of this anonymity to defend themselves from spam, or government repression of free speech ... If the web community won’t trust us with handling their data with great care, we’ll go down in no time.” Peter added that a German-only solution for tighter control of email data isn’t useful in the first place, because people might simply escape to foreign email service providers.
Google standing up for the rights of their users to save less data than the local government asks is a brave move. And while there are other email providers in Germany, Google is the de-facto default search engine here, and that might give them some leverage – if only to escalate the situation and put the spotlight on this new law. On the other hand, as Jens Minor from the German Google Watch Blog remarks, "If Google will indeed stop their email service in the sense that no one will be able to access their mails anymore, they might as well close all local subsidiaries, and Mountain View can go ahead and forget this market – because they’d destroy all user trust from one day to another."
Source: Blogoscoped.com
As usual in these circumstances, the law is pushed through in the name of fighting “terrorists.” But Heise quotes Google’s Peter Fleischer to have said that this law goes against Google’s policy to offer anonymous email accounts (actually, you need to give your first and last name upon Gmail sign-up, but then again you can fake that). Peter says, “Many users around the globe make use of this anonymity to defend themselves from spam, or government repression of free speech ... If the web community won’t trust us with handling their data with great care, we’ll go down in no time.” Peter added that a German-only solution for tighter control of email data isn’t useful in the first place, because people might simply escape to foreign email service providers.
Google standing up for the rights of their users to save less data than the local government asks is a brave move. And while there are other email providers in Germany, Google is the de-facto default search engine here, and that might give them some leverage – if only to escalate the situation and put the spotlight on this new law. On the other hand, as Jens Minor from the German Google Watch Blog remarks, "If Google will indeed stop their email service in the sense that no one will be able to access their mails anymore, they might as well close all local subsidiaries, and Mountain View can go ahead and forget this market – because they’d destroy all user trust from one day to another."
Source: Blogoscoped.com
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