Google Hiring 6,300 This Year, Including in Finance

The tech giant is in the midst of hiring 6,300 workers, a mandate that has forced the notoriously selective firm to streamline its interview process and recruit at less prestigious schools.

The roles span the gamut, from engineering to finance. For example, Google is looking for 65 finance professionals to work in its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, including a director of equity programs to orchestrate the firm's storied stock options.

Of the 1,916 people Google hired in the first quarter of 2011, more than half are working on YouTube, the Chrome web browser, mobile and enterprise technologies, said Jeff Huber, Google's senior vice president of commerce and local, in a conference call this year with investors.