Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Which Hot Tech Companies Are Winning the Fight for Top Coders? | Epicenter | Wired.com

Which Hot Tech Companies Are Winning the Fight for Top Coders? | Epicenter | Wired.com

This graphic while being a good idea is very misleading because it shows gross numbers rather than %s. Facebook appears to be the big winning and Microsoft a pretty big looser, but considering Facebook has about 2000 and MS 89000 employees, the victory is not so clear. The ration of employees gained/lost between the two is 30.5 and the ratio of number of employees is 44.5, meaning that adjusted for the number of employees (in percentage terms) MS is taking from Facebook. Its so chic to count out MS that I think that Window Phone 7 and Window 8 are going to be huge successes.

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