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I don't think he said they had the highest status...I think he said they were the best paid. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but it's a very different claim
by emmett 15y ago
I don't think he said they had the highest status...I think he said they were the best paid. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but it's a very different claim.
(I too have heard differently)
- haldean 15y agoThis is not true -- pay is not based on project.
- dirtyaura 15y agoBut bonus is.
- gruseom 15y agoI've updated my question to make it more precise. Either way, it would contradict what I've heard.
- sliverstorm 15y agoPlease, let's not play this game- what have you heard?
- gruseom 15y agoThere's no game. I've simply heard from people who've worked at Google that the revenue-generating groups are far from the highest-respected. So I think the cited example may in fact be a counterexample. (Certainly there are many angel investors among Googlers and former Googlers who worked in all sorts of areas.) Perhaps because Google was started by programmers, programmers don't have to pretend to be something else there. I'm no Google insider, though, which is why I'd like to hear from people who actually know.
- sliverstorm 15y agoSo who, then is the highest respected?
- _delirium 15y agoIf you go by who HN likes, I'd guess the researchers, who mostly do infrastructure and PLs type stuff-- Peter Norvig, Rob Pike, etc. But that's cheating in a way because they were already famous before Google hired them.