Google Rewards Employees With Millions

iseff writes "According to News.com, the Google guys created a program in November which rewards employees for outstanding achievements. The program gives the possibility of millions of dollars of stock to teams who perform great work. The goal of the program, according to Brin, is two-fold. First, it allows the company to reward 'genius', or whatever they see as genius. And second, it allows them to continue to hire all sorts of employees. According to the article, they believe that a recent grad who would like to work in a start-up will still be attracted to them because of the opportunity to create something great and be rewarded with millions (and without much of the risk associated with startups)."

Comments

So does that make these

[Anonymous Coward]

The First Annual Google Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence?

Re:So does that make these

[Neil Blender]

Google defines Excellence as the "the state or condition of being invented and owned by Google."

Re:So does that make these

[Mr Guy]

No, but it makes the winner the "First Annual Google Genius of Technology".

Re:So does that make these

[artemis67]

Yeah, just like all those idiots at Microsoft...

Re:So does that make these

[persaud]

It makes the winning team the "First Annual Google Genius Lottery Winner", whose likeness can be used to incent other Google Geniuses to work harder.

News at 11

[YrWrstNtmr]

Flash! Incredibly rich and successful company pays its outstanding performers lots of money!

Whoda thunkit?

They still don't have a porn search engine.

[skitz0]

Now thats innovative. It could reduce my search to wack time 80%-90%

Not fair I tell you.

[Kenja]

This kind of thing unfairly punishes those of us who do a half assed job.

Re:Not fair I tell you.

[drsquare]

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Gmail invites for completed Free Ipod referrals [freeipods.com].

So let me get this straight, I jump through hoops and sign up for some things which I don't want and would cause me a load of work, you get an ipod worth hundreds of pounds, and I get a FREE webmail account? I can't help thinking that this is a very one-sided deal.

I have an idea for something fairer: If you come round and clean my house and mow the lawn, I'll give you a slashdot account.

as Homer might say

[chalkoutline]

Google.. is there anything it can't do?

Re:as Homer might say

[flumps]

If they did they'd call it Moogle.

Sorry. Couldn't help it!!

Re:as Homer might say

[PMJ2kx]

Boogle, for that hard-to find Halloween candy
Moogle, Milkin' cows a million miles away
ooogle...an infinante loop search engine
Poogle, for the grotesque side of mankind
Voogle, the hexing and spell-casting search engine
Yoogle FAIL IT! (self-explanitory)
Zoogle, nothing but animals.

Re:Project: Retirement

[evilmousse]

file that under 'problems i'd like to have'.
what keeps hugh hefner hard?

Re:Yay! But...

[nizo]

Luckily the dollar estimates are in Google dollars, only available after Google takes over and starts printing money.

Thirdly..

[GillBates0]

and most importantly, it will help these deserving geeks to attract beautiful women to themselves.

Re:Project: Retirement

[EvilMonkeySlayer]

Viagra?

Help

[Anonymous Coward]

Can someone help me forge my CV so that Google hire me?

This hurts

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not a google employee, you insensitive clod!

Re:Project: Retirement

[evilmousse]

what keeps hugh hefner hard?

Viagra?

fine, when i'm an unmotivated millionaire i'll take ritalin ^^

Re:Stock

[jonnystiph]

Sadly, now I got neither stock or money.

Paying off fines from the Grammar Police?

Re:Project: Retirement

[wolf31o2]

what keeps hugh hefner hard?

Oh, I don't know. Perhaps it is his 7 blonde girlfriends?

That's so...

[Coppit]

That's so their employees can afford a two-bedroom apartment in Silicon Valley.

Re:Buy Bricks

[popo]

Google has a proven track record and there's no reason to think that its not going to remain successful.

Wow. I can't think of a platform on shakier ground. You think Google has a proven track record and has no reason NOT to be successful??!??

Good lord man ... its market cap is higher than GM. Its P/E ratio is hilariously bad. Its got no secret formula... in fact its got nothing but brand and capital. And now its just announced that its going to reward internal promising (dot com) projects to the tune of millions.

If you're an investor I wish you luck.

Just tell me one thing. Why is Google going to be more successful than Yahoo!.

Yahoo doesn't shirk from more profitable revenue streams of image advertising and shopping. Google has a zero-revenue ("froogle") shopping site, a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot advertising strategy and nothing but a fast search. (If you think it can't be toppled you're flat wrong).

The only smart move Google could make right now is to hedge its technology earned capital against real world assets.

This isn't a troll. Google is a dot-com era company. Its earnings in no way justify its pricetag. What's amazing is that people are being fooled again...