[tims33]

With 600 consultants that is $9M per consultant. I realize they analysts and other staff, but compared to other consulting acquisitions which are often <$500k per consultant. Consultants are notoriously difficult to retain and often clash with new cultures. This time is obviously incredibly specialized which makes them different and I'm sure Google made sure there are strong retention bonuses, but it is a pretty incredible price.

[trhway]

Probably Google Cloud mostly pays for the enterprise customers as the customers seems to be the main issue for the GCP, not the technical aspects of security. And for the going price per head in the tech - Showflake recently bought "PHP, only in Python" company for ~12M/head.

[la64710]

Just curious - did the consultants working there made anything out of this deal?