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Re:Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit ... by moocow01 on Thursday March 15, 2012 @03:00AM (#3707242)
Im sorry but this is an incredibly sad and dehumanizing way of perceiving people and their skills. Can you make us a full list of all SV companies so we all can know where we stand on your tiered list and accordingly, what startups will and won't hire us?
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Re:Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit ... by temphn on Thursday March 15, 2012 @04:23AM (#3707397) 

  SELECT * FROM companies WHERE field='tech' ORDER BY growth_rate, market_cap;
That will roughly correspond to a rank ordering of companies that are both growing and big. Apple and Facebook will be near the top of that list. Yahoo and Microsoft much lower.

You could also do it Turing style, analyzing LinkedIn data to see which company is raiding which for talent. Very few Googlers are going to MS. And very few Facebook people are going to Google. Like PageRank, these migration signals give you a rank ordering of desirability.

You can rank colleges the same way, which is why people from Stanford and MIT are usually in the headlines for technological breakthroughs and why people from Directional State are not.

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