Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering

Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by r_sreeram on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:31PM (#13445825)

Amit joining Uber after a year's break coincides with the common "1 year no-solicitation" clause in employment contracts. I wonder if we are about to see some top people in Google get poached. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by geodel on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:47PM (#13445987)

Hope so. I guess last exodus was in 2012 when top people like Marissa Mayer and her reports got poached.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by kchoudhu on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:57PM (#13446074)

> Marissa Mayer and her reports got poached

Looks like Google dodged a bullet there.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by snovv_crash on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:36PM (#13446785)

Dunno, I think Yahoo! was basically unfixable. I mean, what would you have done differently? They just had too much dead wood, including the brand name.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by bduerst on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:51PM (#13447261)

Yahoo! became a holding company for Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan. The search and online services are just window dressing.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by nontrivialkk88 on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:12PM (#13446189)

Technically, the GP said Google's top talent in the context of a possible 2017 exodus.

That has nothing to do with Marissa Mayer.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by snarf on Saturday January 21, 2017 @08:19AM (#13449925)

I was really curious about the timing as well with the year off. It appears from the comments below that at least one other engineering VP from Google (Kevin Thompson) has recently joined Uber but without taking a year off. So is the 1-year no solicitation clause that you mention only common for the senior-most employees like SVP and above?

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