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Your odds for getting Google millions: 0.5 per cent

Google last year hired 5,000 employees. But to find those it had to sift through 1,000,000 applications.

Google_logo The half per cent of the applications that got through still beat the odds of playing the lottery. Except if you rely on Google to get you lottery-style richness.

After all, how much longer do you expect Google's market valuation to continue rising at the current hype rates?

But if you want to work for a cool company that has a model of a space ship and a dinosaur skeleton on its campus, you better write a hell of a resume (and be really good at your job).

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