Google to grow Ireland operation
Search company to hire 600 people in Ireland during next 3 years
Follow @infoworldGoogle Inc. will hire 600 people over the next two to three years in Dublin, the site of Google's European headquarters, company executives announced on Tuesday. The new workers will fill positions across the board including in operations, sales, engineering, legal, finance and human resources, they said at a press conference in Dublin.
Some workers in the Dublin office will help tweak Google services after customers offer feedback about them. "Google rolls out products that some people deem are not ready," said John Herlihy, European director of online sales and operations for Google. But that's all part of the company's strategy to collect customer comments and, based on them, quickly make improvements, in a matter of hours or days, he said.
Google's existing staff in Dublin come from 40 different countries and serve customers in 35 countries using 30 different languages.
Google opened its Dublin office in 2003 and employs 800 people in Europe. A Google spokeswoman would only specify that the majority of those workers are in Dublin. The Dublin office is already Google's largest outside of the U.S.
