[–] stillmotion 18y ago ↗ Misleading title. They only did layoffs at DoubleClick, typical for a merger. [–] wisernow 18y ago ↗ Not that typical in a merger, especially a "growth seeking" merger (like what Google does) vs "cost cutting" merger, like what Oracle does.This is unusual for Google, for sure. What that tells about them (i.e growth expectations etc) is anyone guess ... [–] tdedecko 18y ago ↗ I disagree. I think this is very typical. This is Google's largest acquisition and one of the the few that isn't a startup.When a company does an acquisition of this size there is bound to be numerous redundancies, specifically in the HR department.For another example consider EMC and RSA.
[–] wisernow 18y ago ↗ Not that typical in a merger, especially a "growth seeking" merger (like what Google does) vs "cost cutting" merger, like what Oracle does.This is unusual for Google, for sure. What that tells about them (i.e growth expectations etc) is anyone guess ... [–] tdedecko 18y ago ↗ I disagree. I think this is very typical. This is Google's largest acquisition and one of the the few that isn't a startup.When a company does an acquisition of this size there is bound to be numerous redundancies, specifically in the HR department.For another example consider EMC and RSA.
[–] tdedecko 18y ago ↗ I disagree. I think this is very typical. This is Google's largest acquisition and one of the the few that isn't a startup.When a company does an acquisition of this size there is bound to be numerous redundancies, specifically in the HR department.For another example consider EMC and RSA.
[–] cninja 18y ago ↗ The article reminded me of the comedy "translation" of Adobe's aquisition of Macromedia done some years ago. http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 16.7 ms ] threadThis is unusual for Google, for sure. What that tells about them (i.e growth expectations etc) is anyone guess ...
When a company does an acquisition of this size there is bound to be numerous redundancies, specifically in the HR department.
For another example consider EMC and RSA.