gibybo

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   by gibybo 16y ago

   Their reporting is a little weird, for example: Google Software Engineer, 1-3 years of experience: Salary: 90k Cash bonus: 16.7k Stock bonus: 8.5k Together it comes to 115k, but the average total pay is listed as 102.6k.
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   by gibybo 16y ago

   It may also be rational if they aren't sure what new business model would work and figure it would be too expensive to find out themselves. Or they recognize other business models can work better, but they aren't in a strong position to cap
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   by gibybo 16y ago

   http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/GOOG/Statements.aspx?source=icas... shows that Google paid $2.3B on $10.8B pretax income, or 21%. That's far from 2.4%, but it's also far from 35% so I'm a bit lost.