Google This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Google Cloud has been on a hiring spree, nabbing executives focusing on winning large enterprise customers in specific industries like finance and telecom and helping the unit expand worldwide. This year, it also lost several top execs who went to other firms, including former CFO Steffan Tomlinson. Read below for Google Cloud's biggest hires and departures of the past year. In July 2019, Google Cloud set the goal of tripling its salesforce over the next few years, but it has since gone on a hiring spree in other areas as well.