Liberty Interactive - Search Marketing Blog » google closes phoenix office http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog Internet Marketing and SEO in Phoenix, AZ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:39:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Google Closes Phoenix Office http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/google-closes-phoenix/ http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/google-closes-phoenix/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:30:10 +0000 Liberty Tsighis http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/?p=223 Google posted today on their blog they will be closing their Phoenix office on November 21, 2008 due to unsuccessful and fragmented projects.
Here’s an excerpt from the post:

“We opened our Phoenix office in 2006 and hoped that it would develop to support many of our internal engineering projects, the systems that make Google, well, Google. But we’ve found that despite everyone’s best efforts, the projects our engineers have been working on in Arizona have been, and remain, highly fragmented. So after a lot of soul searching we have decided to incorporate work on these projects into teams elsewhere at Google. We will therefore be closing our Arizona office on November 21, 2008.”

Read the full post here.

AZCentral.com had a follow up article with more details on how many were employed in the Phoenix office.  This will have little impact on employment in the Valley (50 employees) but losing a big name like Google is a disappointment.

Read the full article on AZCentral here.

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