Ahmed Nuaman Freelance Designer and Developer

My time at Google is nearing an end and it seems that while my department want to keep me on, Google believes that because of the economic climate that all contractors are to be let go rather than kept on, regardless of how good they do they’re job.

It’s a shame, over the past six months I’ve seen a number of great individuals leave because of this rule and while it doesn’t make sense, I’m not angry about it.

You see Google will never be short of money, they literally have a hose pipe of funds being pumped into them through advertising and it’s amazing how far they’ve come. So I guess the reason behind this is to uphold a sort of facade to the rest of the world that while they’re doing bad, a company as unlikely to be touched by the recession as Google is also doing bad too.
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