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>bonuses in the millions Hundreds of millions. As part of breaching his employment agreement by stealing trade secrets, Levandowski had to pay back one of his bonuses, which was $120 million . I mean, part of paying this type of comp is to retain talent. How much more should Google have paid to retain him? Or was this even preventable?
God what kind of knowledge / training do I need to get that level of bonus?
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There's a profile of the dude in Wired that goes over what made him so valuable in Larry Page's eyes. https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando... Basically, he was one of the key founders of the project that made Google Maps what it is today (a crown jewel of Google with one of the best cartography datasets), vs what it was originally (better UI to third-party, licensed cartography data). I rememb…
Our GIS department had airphoto and street view on web based arcgis when google rolled out maps. So did our neighbouring cities, with a central site trying to link it all together. They also had, maybe, 10 users outside of our own network a year. Everyone else we’re using the traditional pre-google-maps map websites, in my country krak.dk. I think what google did better was marketing. Then they mapped every WiFi netw…
But it wasn't useful to anyone who wasn't in the GIS/remote sensingspace. Firstly, the ArcGIS product was primarily client/server and secondly you had to understand what you wanted to see before you used it - it was (and is) literally as easy to get infra red satellite imagery as actual photos.
That's not just marketing - it made it usable for whole new markets.
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>bonuses in the millions Hundreds of millions. As part of breaching his employment agreement by stealing trade secrets, Levandowski had to pay back one of his bonuses, which was $120 million . I mean, part of paying this type of comp is to retain talent. How much more should Google have paid to retain him? Or was this even preventable?
God what kind of knowledge / training do I need to get that level of bonus?
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Acknowledge your privilege.
Wow... Or perhaps you should acknowledge that many others are being granted the same treatment. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
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Wow... Or perhaps you should acknowledge that many others are being granted the same treatment. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
HN is mostly white software engineers. Any topic on diversity and minorities and the absolute true "colors" come out.
It just proves that if you want to do a crime, do the white collar crime. White gloves treatment will ensue, if you get caught.
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There's a profile of the dude in Wired that goes over what made him so valuable in Larry Page's eyes. https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando... Basically, he was one of the key founders of the project that made Google Maps what it is today (a crown jewel of Google with one of the best cartography datasets), vs what it was originally (better UI to third-party, licensed cartography data). I rememb…
Our GIS department had airphoto and street view on web based arcgis when google rolled out maps. So did our neighbouring cities, with a central site trying to link it all together. They also had, maybe, 10 users outside of our own network a year. Everyone else we’re using the traditional pre-google-maps map websites, in my country krak.dk. I think what google did better was marketing. Then they mapped every WiFi netw…
What google did was make it into a mass product and they had the resources to apply it to a planet level. That is more than marketing. There are a whole lot of steps between tech demo/proof of concept to product. The most important of which is to actually have the foresight of what the product can be and a plan to get there.
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Wow... Or perhaps you should acknowledge that many others are being granted the same treatment. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
HN is mostly white software engineers. Any topic on diversity and minorities and the absolute true "colors" come out.
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God what kind of knowledge / training do I need to get that level of bonus?
There's a profile of the dude in Wired that goes over what made him so valuable in Larry Page's eyes. https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando... Basically, he was one of the key founders of the project that made Google Maps what it is today (a crown jewel of Google with one of the best cartography datasets), vs what it was originally (better UI to third-party, licensed cartography data). I rememb…
With a corporate sponsor willing to sink billions of dollars into a project with potentially no upside?
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This is the Google version of winning the lottery. Right place, right skills, right time.
No, you cannot compare becoming the world's best self-driving engineer to winning the lottery. This is like becoming Lebron James, it's tremendous talent combined with tremendous commitment.
Citation needed. I don't see many self-driving cars around, did you mean "world's most self-promoting engineer in self-driving cars"?