> (restricting 25% to ~10%) AppAmaGooBookSoft I would even be skeptical of the ~10% estimate. Even accounting for contributions in cash machines like AdX and A

> (restricting 25% to ~10%) AppAmaGooBookSoft I would even be skeptical of the ~10% estimate. Even accounting for contributions in cash machines like AdX and Adwords, commanding one million dollars in engineer's pay seems to be a matter of having a rare set of skills in working on outrageously difficult problems (deep learning, managing complex networks, or large-scale cloud computing setups). I am not too sold about cashing on "creating business value". It's not like Google lacks technical expertise to understand the scale of their problems. Likely, if you are working amongst super-technically-able people, the only way to reach that figure is pushing yourself to gain expertise in a valuable domain or move into management where your product decisions have a direct impact.