I was reading an article on the Microsoft-Yahoo “marriage” in the New York Times on the impact of recruiting for the two companies and came across the following statistics on Google: “(Google)…receives more than 20,000 resumes a week, or two every minute, according to Sunny Gettinger, a Google spokeswoman.” From another paper, there was a record high of 70,000 resume received in one week! Here
Now that’s a lot of resumes.
That’s about 2,800 resumes or so a day! And, according to this paper, Google receives over a million resumes a year: What does it take to get a job at Google?
An interesting comparison is Yahoo receives 12,000 resumes a week: Yahoo
