The Mystery/Myth of the $3 Million Google Engineer 173
jfruh writes "Recently Business Insider caused a minor stir among developers with dreams of riches with a story about a nameless Google engineer who's making $3 million a year. Who is this person, and how unusual are pay scales like this inside the Googleplex? Phil Johnson uses public information to try to figure out the answer. His conclusion: the $3 million engineer may exist, but is a rare bird indeed if so."
Hope (Score:5, Funny)
I bet it's their UI designer. He's worth every penny!
Re:Bogus Math, click farming. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The whole things smells fishy (Score:2, Funny)
You'd be surprised. I worked for a perpetual startup once, and they seemed to be able to pay above-average engineering salaries with no real sales (or products!) for years. It's a bit baffling, but I'm in Quebec, everything is baffling here.
Are they hiring ? I need a new job.