It’s a good bet that mailmen (and/or mail servers) are still delivering huge numbers of applications and resumes to Google. A very large survey has confirmed that university students regard the search giant as the world’s most attractive employer.
Universum contacted almost 120,000 students from Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, the UK, and the US regarding which companies they’d most like to work for. The result: Google won in both the business and engineering categories.
Not many of the other corporations we usually cover made either list; you’ll find PricewaterhouseCoopers, Goldman Sachs, and Ernst & Young on the one side, and IBM, BMW, and Intel on the other. But Microsoft scored quite well, at least, coming in at number three on the business side of things and number two in terms of the engineering rankings.
So both Google and Microsoft will probably continue to employ people of the highest caliber for the foreseeable future. It just looks like Google might maintain a bit of an edge, perhaps getting kids who are in the top 0.5 percent of their class instead of the more pedestrian top 1.0 percent or so.
Hat tip goes to Barry Schwartz.
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