Check out the court ruling in the labour vs Google case: https://www.oalj.dol.gov/Decisions/ALJ/OFC/2017/OFCCP_-_SAN_FRANCISC_v_GOOGLE_INC_2017OFC00004_(JUL_14

Check out the court ruling in the labour vs Google case: https://www.oalj.dol.gov/Decisions/ALJ/OFC/2017/OFCCP_-_SAN_FRANCISC_v_GOOGLE_INC_2017OFC00004_(JUL_14_2017)_195652_CADEC_SD.PDF https://www.oalj.dol.gov/Decisions/ALJ/OFC/2017/OFCCP_-_SAN_... Page 10 has the information: A “compensation team” sets the salary for each hire. Tr. 165-69. The team has no direct contact with the applicant and does not have the applicant’s name, gender, race, or ethnicity. Id. For industry hires, the committee might be given the applicant’s current compensation but no earlier compensation data. Tr. 175-77. For the employees included in the September 2015 “snapshot,” about 20 percent were campus hires. Tr. 197-98. The only circumstance under which Google might increase the starting compensation for a campus hire is when the applicant has a competing offer greater Google’s. Google will not offer a larger salary or annual bonus plan, but it might offer a larger sign-on bonus or one-time stock grant. Tr. 207, 210-16, 223. There are no starting pay negotiations, and Google considers no other factors. Tr. 197-98.