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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by shazow on Sunday November 06, 2011 @04:01PM (#3203830)
Are we counting Google Account Managers hiring third-party contractors to do ad-hoc work for major clients?

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pylons-discuss/asqBrrEEhNo...

Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by skybrian on Sunday November 06, 2011 @08:55PM (#3204629)
There are exceptions. But for software engineers who contribute to Google's (non-open source) code base, Google pretty much got out of using contractors around 2008 or so. Some contractors became employees.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10107141-93.html