Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant • Hacker News Board

Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 12:15 AM UTC

bmcquade wrote: post #153

andrewstuart wrote: post #59

I simply don’t see what good this CEO has done. He’s destroyed googles reputation with developers. Destroyed customer trust in Google products. Done nothing to fix googles reputation for terrible customer service. Led Google to third place in cloud computing. AND been thrashed by Microsoft / ChatGPT, putting Googles core business at risk. Why is this guy CEO?

Sundar became CEO at a time when Google needed a leader who could build consensus across different product areas. Sundar was the right person for this role. Unfortunately Sundar is also relatively weak at setting a bold vision to ensure the company continues to grow and innovate, as Larry had done. So under Sundar the company has slowly shifted from being innovative to being very risk averse, incentivising not making…

I'm sure they could have found a safe consensus building CEO for less that $226M. Like, way less.

Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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Post by riceart » Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 5:53 AM UTC

throwaway173738 wrote: post #535

riceart wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think you can argue that in both cases continued servitude is the only way either of them can get food and a place to sleep indoors. No you can’t argue that because it’s stupid. A typical google software engineer will have made enough that in their early 30s they can quit/retire and live the rest of their life at at least the same standard of living as that cleaning lady (almost none of them find that an acceptab…

So what do you want then, a world where the engineer has the same standard of living as the cleaner or where the cleaner has the same standard of living as the engineer?

Umm, neither.

Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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Post by spencerchubb » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 6:57 PM UTC

arkitaip wrote: post #97

spencerchubb wrote: post #81

This title implies that Pichai is greedy and disenfranchising the employees. This is true, but at the same time: I would be extremely grateful to have worked at Google and be laid off. That's almost a non-problem.

Tell that to the thousands of googlers who are struggling on the job market right now.

I find it hard to imagine that someone could be an ex-Google employee and struggle financially. Unless they were financially irresponsible.

Being a Google employee for any amount of time is a huge privilege