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Or could have paid the ceo $1M and kept 10 out of 250 at $200k. Do you think 10 would have stayed for $200k/year. The point, I think, is that the Mozilla CEO i
by prepend 6y ago
Or could have paid the ceo $1M and kept 10 out of 250 at $200k. Do you think 10 would have stayed for $200k/year.
The point, I think, is that the Mozilla CEO is sucking, as measured by failing product lines and poor resource management resulting in firing 250 people, and got a raise.
- porcc 6y agoI'm not a manager, but as a SWE I often hear that employees cost many multiples more than just their salary. $2M might account for <5 employees
- MagnumOpus 6y agoI'm not a manager anymore, but I often hear that browser development can happen outside of the Valley, where annual programmer staff costs are less than 400k a year... Three million might buy you 200 competent SWE in Romania or Russia.
- prepend 6y agoThat applies to the CEO too right? I was using net dollars. But the point stands with gross dollars. I don’t think it’s about the number of devs but more about how they rewarded failure with a big raise.