Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
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Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
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Re: Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
#2Hard to believe.
Re: Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
#3The 250k/year is to keep these best of breed programmers from leaving. No doubt their email inboxes are completely spammed with job offers. It's capitalism, supply and demand. If Google could get away with paying them minimum wage, they would. What prevents them from doing that is that their company will crash and burn in 6 months if they did.
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#4It seems like we're missing some important information. I'd be interested to know what he did before going to Google - i.e. he didn't go there straight from university. So he worked for Jacques, then left and some unspecified stuff happened in the middle, and now he's at Google. What did he do in that period that made him so valuable?
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#5Google's one of the few big companies that's smart enough to let engineers' careers progress without forcing them over to a management track.
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#6This smells funny to me. From everything I saw when I worked at Google, Glassdoor had the salary range right. For all the guy's self-deprecation, if he was really making $250k, even after bonus and stock, he must have been promoted multiple times, or hired at a fairly high level.
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#7A lot of people seem to find this incredible (from my twitter feed), but I don't, really.
I know a couple of people running brick-and-mortar shops (think: selling furniture etc), or lawyers, or other professions that earn just as much too.
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#8nothing is stopping these guys from coding something up after work/on the weekend. Sure it'll take twice as long to release a project, but it's a small price to keep getting $20K a month salary
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#9Tl;dr: someone's ex-employee is now working at Google, says he gets $250k salary and he's under 30.
Why is this even on HN, let alone #1?
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#10'at Google I feel like I'm stupid most of the time'
Is that let's-pay-them-enough-not-to-leave-for-Facebook-even-if-they-don't-do-much strategy still on?