I'm sure they are hiring
"If EMC emerges successful, which it most probably will, then it will be an even stronger company than before"
EMC’s first quarter results were like the curate's egg; good in parts, but hit by currency problems, job cuts and unsatisfactory core storage revenues in others. First-quarter 2015 revenues were up 2 per cent to $5.6bn, compared to $5.5bn a year ago, with EMC II (the core storage biz) revenues disappointing. The top-line …
The point of the 'Curate's egg' joke is that it's impossible to have a bad egg that's 'good in parts' - a bad egg is entirely inedible. So the analogy should really only be used to describe situations where one thing going wrong causes the whole to fail.
Here endeth the lesson.