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Apparently, Google Doesn't Quite Need Kai Fu Lee's Recruiting Skills

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from the just-post-the-job-openings dept

Wed, Sep 28th 2005 3:43pm — Mike Masnick
Earlier this month, a judge ruled that about the only thing Kai-Fu Lee could do for Google is help recruit employees for Google's new China research center (as long as those employees didn't work for Lee's former employer, Microsoft). Well, it's beginning to look like Google really didn't need much help in the recruiting department. Within five hours of posting 50 job openings for the new center, Google received over 1,000 resumes. Of course, Microsoft may be realizing that their lawsuit against Google and Lee may have backfired. Perhaps one of the reasons the job openings got so much attention was because of the lawsuit. While many people may have passed over the news that Google was opening such a center in China, all the press over Lee's status certainly made it known to a lot more people.
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    Anonymous Coward, 28 Sep 2005 @ 4:39pm

    No Subject Given

    I'm pretty damn sure Google would've gotten all the applications they wanted either way. They are after all GOOGLE.

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      Anonymous Coward, 28 Sep 2005 @ 6:14pm

      Re: No Subject Given

      Actually, it's part of their plot to overwhelm Google with resumes...

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    Anonymous Coward, 28 Sep 2005 @ 5:01pm

    No Subject Given

    Hahaha, reading this off of a link from Google's Personalized Home Page Techdirt snap-in.

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    Anonymous Coward, 28 Sep 2005 @ 6:18pm

    ditto

    ditto.

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    dorpus, 28 Sep 2005 @ 7:56pm

    Maybe that's a low rate

    Jobs are still scarce for college graduates in China. There is a surplus of "smart" kids with college degrees, and not enough factory workers. Employers in China have taken to arbitrarily restricting applicants based on age, height, and sex. There have been news articles, even in China's state-controlled media, interviewing college kids who complain that they would have been better off just graduating high school -- even though their family sacrificed everything for their college education.

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      Rickler, 28 Sep 2005 @ 8:21pm

      Re: Maybe that's a low rate

      Ding, you just answered why colleges are so expensive. America needs 'stupid' people. It's kind of comical; in my neighborhood I see gardeners who most likely don't speak English driving brand new f-150's and Tundra's with their tools of the trade in the back. And maids getting out of 40 thousand dollar Lincoln navigators.

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        dorpus, 28 Sep 2005 @ 8:34pm

        Re: Maybe that's a low rate

        We seem to be moving toward an era when the most secure jobs are those requiring less education -- if you can stand the tedium and low social status of it.

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        Anonymous Coward, 30 Sep 2005 @ 9:48am

        Re: Maybe that's a low rate

        that's because of all of these cut rate loans that are basically handed to Latinos. Seriously, read up on it. Businesses are courting the growing Latino dollar and offering special loans (that don't require you to even be a citizen) and small business incentives (the whole "minority owned business" junk again)

        That, and when you pile 8 people into a 3 bedroom place, your cost of living goes down quite a bit.

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    ditto, 28 Sep 2005 @ 8:50pm

    ditto

    ditto (look, i'm generic)

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    the dittoer, 28 Sep 2005 @ 9:35pm

    This thing is awesome

    dittoing

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    orlando, 29 Sep 2005 @ 12:20am

    hmmmm

    I believe google is capable enough of doing things on thier own.

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