Google last year hired 5,000 employees. But to find those it had to sift through 1,000,000 applications.

The half per cent of the applications that got through still beat the odds of playing the lottery. Except if you rely on Google to get you lottery-style richness.

25 Jan 2007

After all, how much longer do you expect Google's market valuation to continue rising at the current hype rates?

But if you want to work for a cool company that has a model of a space ship and a dinosaur skeleton on its campus, you better write a hell of a resume (and be really good at your job).