I thought the peer bonuses were like $175? I have a story. The first year I was at Google, I was working on payments. I remember checking the internal versio

I thought the peer bonuses were like $175? I have a story. The first year I was at Google, I was working on payments. I remember checking the internal version of the documentation for our to-be-announced-at-Google-IO product, and noticed that it has accidentally been made available publicly, spoiling the surprise of the launch. Our director was visiting and was roaming around the office, so I flagged him down and let him know. (Actually, I spent quite a while convincing him that it wasn't some quirk that allowed guest WiFi addresses to also view secret documentation.) The end result was that he said "I'd give you a peer bonus, but I've already given my quota of peer bonuses this quarter." It was so awkward. I didn't even want or expect a bonus. I just wanted the problem to get fixed. (I also found it weird that directors / VPs are running around giving out peer bonuses. Pretty sure they had other ways to reward direct reports.)