The title positions Google as a nice resort no one should want to leave. But for most engineers (who would have pursued a different career if they were purely m

The title positions Google as a nice resort no one should want to leave. But for most engineers (who would have pursued a different career if they were purely money motivated) salary and perks are "hygiene factors", which can dissatisfy if they are inadequate but can't really satisfy. See Hertzberg's "Two Factor" theory of job satisfaction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_factor_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_factor_theory