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eitally on July 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google and LinkedIn announce massive land swap

It's not HR in the sense you think. LinkedIn makes the majority of their money selling recruiting tools. That requires scads of talent management experts.

joncrocks on July 13, 2016 [–]

But wouldn't that come under sales? Or maybe product development?

If they were all recruitment experts, that would still be a rather high ratio of expertise to engineering.

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