Google VP weird HR claim
By Techgirl

Tech giant Google is widely admired for its superb search engine and user friendly applications.  Google is also one of the best employers in the world and gives generous salaries and perks to its employees.  Hundreds of thousands of people apply for jobs at Google but only the very best get hired.  The Google founders have created a work culture where even a lowly techie is given the freedom to ask them anything.  Google is the closest one can get to tech utopia.

But it seems that at least one Google Vice President feels that Google should not hire all the best people otherwise it will upset the balance in the industry and be detrimental to public interest.  Seriously, he actually thinks that Google is in a position to monopolize all the best engineering brains on earth.

The Register is reporting

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Apparently, Google is so concerned with others keeping it on its toes, it avoids hiring too many of the industry's leading brains. "I recently had a discussion with an engineer at Google and I pointed out a handful of people that I thought were fruitful in the industry and I proposed that we should hire these people," Supernova Google Vice President Bradley Horowitz told the Supernova meeting.

"But [the engineer] stopped me and said: 'These people are actually important to have outside of Google. They're very Google people that have the right philosophies around these things, and it's important that we not hire these guys. It's better for the ecosystem to have an honest industry, as opposed to aggregating all this talent at Google.'"
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We should all be thankful that Google rejected many of the best people because it did not want to monopolize all the talent.  Because of such a policy we now have Twitter, Facebook, Linux and other great marvels of tech engineering.

Techgoss note: Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog http://techgirltalk.blogspot.com