Google/ Facebook fighting for bright minds

How time changes. Now big guns fighting to get a piece of "wow" mind from big universities. A real time eBay style auction to hire people. 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/30/stanford-computer-science-grads-getting-95k-offers-from-google

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