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But remember, it's a 10% raise immediately after the company got caught with illegal no-poaching agreements with their competitors.
by dstein 16y ago
But remember, it's a 10% raise immediately after the company got caught with illegal no-poaching agreements with their competitors.
- yanw 16y agoI doubt HP and Adobe were poaching Google employees, the "clod-calling" agreement was most likely to everyone else's benefit, a Google employee would only leave for IPO money or to start their own thing.
- PakG1 16y agoWhy not? Especially HP, they're going heavy into the cloud infrastructure space. A lot of Google's scale expertise would probably come in handy. And Adobe being a software company... well, good software companies always want good programmers. Clearly, Google has those.
- nikcub 16y agoThe 10% pay rise was offset by a $17 drop in the stock. Most employees own stock, so they got an extra 10% taxed as income at the cost of lower stock value which is taxed as gains Something tells me Google didn't think it through