Public
Google · 2007
Public recruiting brand
“Google’s public story was that the best people should work at Google, and that the company hired aggressively from anywhere.”
The recruiter did the public job. Schmidt did the private one: fire the visible competition within the hour. The paper trail is the tell — he wrote it down.
The tell · Speed is evidence. A same-day firing after a peer CEO emails is the policy.
How this became public: High-Tech Employee exhibits, later unredacted.