9,000 interviews, at €30.00 an hour, times two interviewers, is €270,000 x 2 = €540,000.<p>If through recruitment agencies, assuming a 10%-of-first-year's-salary fee and average salary of €40,000,
€40,000 x 10% x 1000 = €4,000,000<p>I hear that you should multiply x two the gross salary to get the annual cost of an employee.
€40,000 x 2 x 1000 = €80 million.<p>Assuming they are permanent staff, and the risk free rate is 3%, then an additional liability of €80,000,000/.03 = €2.7 Billion Euro is created for Google. This figure makes the previous two immaterial so I am going to forget about them.<p>Current market capital of Google is 144.079573 billion Euro. (and somebody should tell Google's search calculator folks that it's Euro, not Euros, as 's' does not pluralise in all languages)<p>2.7 divided by 144 = 1.8% of market capital (or overall current share value based on most recent market price) that this should cost them. Says nothing about what this could or could not earn them.<p>Just thinking out loud. I probably made a mistake somewhere.