Will Google out-staff Yahoo! by the end of the year? Wall Street analysts from UBS have crunched the numbers and say that Google is hiring more than Yahoo!:
- Google had 1,800 open positions, up 125% year-over-year.
- Yahoo! had 800 open positions, down 14.4% YoY.
- Current headcounts for Google and Yahoo! are 6,790 and 10,098, respectively.
- Last year's hiring numbers for Google and Yahoo! were 800 and 935 respectively.
I'm not sure I agree. Without more data points, it isn't reasonable to forecast out based on growth rate in open positions since Yahoo! is exhibiting negative growth.
Assuming a 100% fill rate (confidence interval will be fairly high in that Google placed 2nd in Fortune's MBA wish list), then the implied growth rate for Google will be 26% vs Yahoo!'s 8%.
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