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Google will pay top execs $1M each after declining to boost workers’ pay
- jleyank 5y agoOf course. Top execs are critical to the companies success while those who do the work are fungible resources. If the workers were good, they’d be management, etc.
- netizen-936824 5y agoI think this is a poor take, as engineering and management are entirely different skill sets
- errantmind 5y agoI took it as sarcasm, but I think this is generally the thinking involved.
- netizen-936824 5y agoYou're correct that the thought pattern is unfortunately common. That's why I didn't assume it was sarcasm.
- ab_testing 5y agoThis sounds like a biased article. First of, this increased compensation is only being offered to a few upper level employees. May be they are trying to prevent those execs from jumping ship to competitors like Meta and Apple. Only FAANG companies have been doing similar things to prevent churn. Also, normal software engineers at Google are not lowly paid. In fact, all FAANG salaries are in the top quintile in the bay. In fact, at many of these tech companies, it is easy to hire at junior level because there is a lot of talent applying (unless you are hiring to fire) but harder to retain at the top level
- AlexandrB 5y agoWhen they want to prevent churn in the rank and file these companies have been known[1] to collude to stop each other from stealing employees. Why don't they do that for executives too? Oh right. Because the executives are the ones doing the colluding. The game is rigged. [1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-google-employee-poaching_n_1437461 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-google-employee-poachin...