http://blog.eightblack.com/2007/in-the-war-for-talent-google-leads-the-way/ Thoughts on sales, marketing and the internet. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:13:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.eightblack.com/2007/in-the-war-for-talent-google-leads-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-18373 Wombat Selling » Blog Archive » Silicon Valley needs more focus on sales and marketing Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:04:44 +0000 http://blog.eightblack.com/2007/in-the-war-for-talent-google-leads-the-way/#comment-18373 [...] Simon Chen, just back from the Googleplex and other tech TQs in the US, says, “Companies like the technology trio need to place as much emphasis on people who can sell it, just as much as finding the people who can build it.” [...] [...] Simon Chen, just back from the Googleplex and other tech TQs in the US, says, “Companies like the technology trio need to place as much emphasis on people who can sell it, just as much as finding the people who can build it.” [...]

]]> http://blog.eightblack.com/2007/in-the-war-for-talent-google-leads-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-16346 Evan Walters Mon, 28 May 2007 11:26:57 +0000 http://blog.eightblack.com/2007/in-the-war-for-talent-google-leads-the-way/#comment-16346 As a coder, I was challenged by your application process, having just completed it for the first time. In a lot of ways its much easier for me to accept the age old measure of success based on the school you went to and the grades you received there, than to place all my bets on one piece of code and three reasons why its good. I think in the manic world in which we live getting a guy who was on the deans list at Stanford is easier than applying for, or processing applications using your process. But hey, thats just my 2c. As a coder, I was challenged by your application process, having just completed it for the first time. In a lot of ways its much easier for me to accept the age old measure of success based on the school you went to and the grades you received there, than to place all my bets on one piece of code and three reasons why its good. I think in the manic world in which we live getting a guy who was on the deans list at Stanford is easier than applying for, or processing applications using your process. But hey, thats just my 2c.

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