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The Mystery/Myth of the $3 Million Google Engineer

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @05:05PM from the chasing-the-unicorn dept.

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."

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Hope by Hognoxious · 2014-01-14 20:38 · Score: 5, Funny

I bet it's their UI designer. He's worth every penny!

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Re:Bogus Math, click farming. by guyniraxn · 2014-01-15 00:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Wow. Such disappoint. Much lecture. So sad.