I remember hearing in 2008 that Google valued engineers at 1-3m per. At Google's scale, an engineer can theoretically create at least that much value over a no

I remember hearing in 2008 that Google valued engineers at 1-3m per. At Google's scale, an engineer can theoretically create at least that much value over a normal tenure (and denies their competition access to that resource). Google makes $1.2M/yr/employee... Presumably quite a bit more if you count dollars per engineer. I know it's not quite so simple as "add an engineer and make more revenue", but it seems correlative.