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The Mystery/Myth of the $3 Million Google Engineer
jfruh writes "Recently Business Insider caused a minor stir among developers with dreams of riches with a story about a nameless Google engineer who's making $3 million a year. Who is this person, and how unusual are pay scales like this inside the Googleplex? Phil Johnson uses public information to try to figure out the answer. His conclusion: the $3 million engineer may exist, but is a rare bird indeed if so."
You are either ignorant, unintelligent, or a factor of the two. I recently left a job that paid $155k in salary plus around %30 bonus for one that *only* offered $145k in salary. why? because of quality of life. And, I was not "born" into this wage; it came out of years of studying when others would call me a "nerd"
You're a fool.
I'm in a similar situation, I earn about 180k a year on salary.
I dropped out of high school, dropped out of uni, have no real degrees, and worked my way to where I am today - I'm by now means highly intelligent, I just like what I do.
Hard work can get you anywhere, if you're not lazy, ignorant, or generally unlikeable.
If you're any of these three though, you reap what you sow - but don't think challenging people in our position on slashdot somehow justifies where you are now, it's your own fault.