Economic Downturn and Internships for Us

Due to the economic uncertainty Google has scaled back spending growth to maintain its profit growth, enriching investors and management but hurting student-employees like us. In order to retain more of its revenue, it has scaled back hiring to a third of the level last year--meaning now my chances of getting hired by Google is 66% lower this year than it would have been last year.

Damn. I'm sure Google isn't the first to limit hiring.

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Dang.

As are chances for me then. :(

:( Oh well. It's better than

:( Oh well. It's better than entering the workforce this year, though.

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