[olug] [OT] - Google positions filled in Coucil Bluffs?

[Bill Brush]

I think you're looking at this the wrong way Brian (sorry if that is
mis-attributed).

Google is a global company who recruits the best possible people.  They can
then convince them to move to Iowa.  Once they live there, they are "local"
in that they live and work here.  Google pays them, they spend their money
here on housing, food, etc.  So Google is not only injecting cash into the
local economy, they are also creating jobs (by virtue of more cash in the
local economy) and improving the quality of the local population by bringing
the best and brightest people they can recruit here.

Sure we all wish we could work there for a bazillion dollars and have the
added cachet of having Google on our resume' but having that datacenter in
CB is still a benefit.  Personally I wish they'd put it in Lincoln so I
could have a shot at a job there, but I'm not doing a commute to CB, not
even to work for Google.

Bill


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Spencer Butler <underground at google.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Brian Roberson <roberson at olug.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > So, that really goes to prove the validity of my orignal questions. :)
> > Are you or arent you an implant just for the position?
>
>
> I <3 the midwest.  But... yeah, I moved here because Google pays me to work
> on really cool technologies :)  _and_ help build a DC for them.  I'm glad
> to
> be here any way your slice it though.  I live in a small town next to a
> cool
> city.  Life is good.
>