Another Google Executive Defects to (Microsoft) Facebook
Ezekiel
Another Google Executive Defects to Facebook
By Scott Morrison
Companies Featured in This Article: Google, News
SAN FRANCISCO -- Another Google Inc. executive is leaving the Internet
search giant for social networking start-up Facebook Inc.
Facebook on Tuesday confirmed that Ethan Beard, the former director of
social media at Google, will join the privately held company as director of
business development. Mr. Beard is the second high-profile executive this
month to leave Google, a company that was widely considered one of the best
places to work in Silicon Valley.
Meanwhile, Facebook has become the fastest growing and second-most-popular
social network. The Palo Alto, ...
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Tim Smith
Not surprising. LinkedIn, on their beta companies pages, gives
information about where people are coming to companies from, and leaving
for. For Google, the top 5 places they have people coming to Google
from are:
Microsoft
IBM
Sun
Oracle
Yahoo
(I don't know how those are ordered), and the top 5 places people leave
Google for are:
Yahoo
Microsoft
Facebook
Cisco
Apple
For Microsoft, they come from:
IBM
HP
Oracle
Intel
and leave for
Google
Amazon
Oracle
Yahoo
IBM
IBM people come from
Price Waterhouse
Accenture
HP
Oracle
PwC Consulting
and leave for
Microsoft
Oracle
HP
Accenture
Cisco
Apple gets them from
Sun
IBM
HP
Microsoft
Dell
and loses them to
Cisco
Microsoft
Google
Adobe
Sun
Sun gets them from
StorageTek
IBM
HP
DEC
Oracle
and loses them to
Cisco
Microsoft
Network Appliance
IBM
Oracle
Amazon gets them from
Microsoft
IBM
Oracle
and loses them to
Microsoft
Google
Yahoo
Starbucks
Expedia
They also give for each company what companies their employees are most
connected to.
Microsoft:
Amazon
Google
Yahoo
Oracle
IBM:
Oracle
Microsoft
IBM Tivoli Software
SAP
Google:
Yahoo
Facebook
YouTube
Microsoft
Apple:
Adobe
Google
Yahoo
Sun:
VMWare
Network Appliance
Cisco
Oracle
All those posts we see about people moving from one company to another,
and drawing all kinds of tin-foil hat worthy conclusions from such
movements, are from people who no idea how the high tech industry works,
especially in Silicon Valley.
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--Tim Smith
Linonut
> Not surprising. LinkedIn, on their beta companies pages, gives
> information about where people are coming to companies from, and leaving
> for. For Google, the top 5 places they have people coming to Google
> from are:
>
> Microsoft
> IBM
> Sun
> Oracle
> Yahoo
>
> . . .
>
> All those posts we see about people moving from one company to another,
> and drawing all kinds of tin-foil hat worthy conclusions from such
> movements, are from people who no idea how the high tech industry works,
> especially in Silicon Valley.
And we still don't since you didn't post numbers.
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Ezekiel
"Tim Smith" <reply_i...@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
news:reply_in_group-ADE...@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net...
In case it wasn't obvious, my post was in response to the ridiculous post
of "Yet Another Microsoft General Manager Jumped Ship" made by Roy
Schestowitz.
For some reason Roy thinks it's news when an exec or manager changes jobs.
When (if) he ever gets his first job he might be surprised to learn that
it's not a big deal for a manager to take a different position with a new
company.
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> --Tim Smith
Moshe Goldfarb
> For some reason Roy thinks it's news when an exec or manager changes jobs.
> When (if) he ever gets his first job he might be surprised to learn that
> it's not a big deal for a manager to take a different position with a new
> company.
Mentioning the words "exec, manager or job" in the same sentence as Roy
Schestowitz is an oxymoron.
Emphasis on MORON..
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Moshe Goldfarb
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