Rehan
Aug 11th, 2006, 03:19 PM
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Google eyes bigger Canadian office
SIMON AVERY
Aug 10, 2006
Google Inc. wants to create a mid-sized research and development office in Canada with as many as 200 staff.
“We're looking to grow aggressively. We think there's a real opportunity for a Southern Ontario R&D centre,” Shona Brown, the company's senior vice-president of business operations, said in an interview in Toronto.
The foundations of that office are already in place, following the acquisition last summer of Reqwireless Inc., a startup in Waterloo, Ont., that makes Internet browser and e-mail software for wireless devices.
Google's website now advertises for just two positions in Waterloo, but Ms. Brown said the company is actually hiring across the board, from directors to fresh engineering graduates.
“We would like to grow a fairly sizable R&D centre there,” ranging between 100 and 200 people, she said. The company is also adding sales and marketing staff in Toronto. Google doesn't disclose its local headcount, but in Canada it is still small. In Toronto, it doesn't have its own offices, but rents executive space downtown. Worldwide, the eight-year-old company has about 6,000 employees.
The Canadian R&D centre will be part of a growing web of research sites around the world, where Google engineers typically work in small groups of three, are moved around from project to project, and don't specialize in a particular area.
“It's a dynamic and flexible model,” said Ms. Brown, a Canadian Rhodes scholar who was recruited by Google three years ago from the Los Angeles office of consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
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Google eyes bigger Canadian office
SIMON AVERY
Aug 10, 2006
Google Inc. wants to create a mid-sized research and development office in Canada with as many as 200 staff.
“We're looking to grow aggressively. We think there's a real opportunity for a Southern Ontario R&D centre,” Shona Brown, the company's senior vice-president of business operations, said in an interview in Toronto.
The foundations of that office are already in place, following the acquisition last summer of Reqwireless Inc., a startup in Waterloo, Ont., that makes Internet browser and e-mail software for wireless devices.
Google's website now advertises for just two positions in Waterloo, but Ms. Brown said the company is actually hiring across the board, from directors to fresh engineering graduates.
“We would like to grow a fairly sizable R&D centre there,” ranging between 100 and 200 people, she said. The company is also adding sales and marketing staff in Toronto. Google doesn't disclose its local headcount, but in Canada it is still small. In Toronto, it doesn't have its own offices, but rents executive space downtown. Worldwide, the eight-year-old company has about 6,000 employees.
The Canadian R&D centre will be part of a growing web of research sites around the world, where Google engineers typically work in small groups of three, are moved around from project to project, and don't specialize in a particular area.
“It's a dynamic and flexible model,” said Ms. Brown, a Canadian Rhodes scholar who was recruited by Google three years ago from the Los Angeles office of consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
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