New Google CFO?

It’s been four months since Google’s CFO George Reyes announced he was retiring as soon as a replacement was found, and Google has thus far had no luck picking one. Shouldn’t potential candidates be storming the gates, desperate for the job?

Well, there are a number of arguments against being CFO. For one, the stock is very expensive, and may not go up. Those stock options may now be as valuable as those that could be obtained at a smaller growing company, like Facebook. Also, Google’s executive core hasn’t exactly looked like a group some experienced businessmen would like to join, with adulterers and hard partying not seen at, say, Microsoft.

Plus, Google’s corporate culture and interview process aren’t going to be appealing to the best candidates. Google values education over experience, youth over experience, problem solving over track records. Top CFOs aren’t going to lower themselves to go through that process, and the type of people Google normally likes are wholly unqualified to run the financials of a $211 billion company.

If you could pick anyone in the entire business world, who would you hire as Google’s CFO? Would you even make them interview for it?

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