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The Mystery/Myth of the $3 Million Google Engineer

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re: Google gave 3.5M to keep an engineer from Face by jmcbain · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    1. MapReduce has no recursion. It is a programming framework for applying user-defined functions and aggregating results by value.
    2. Further, it is a full working implementation that handles communication, shuffling, and data IO on a distributed, massively-parallel cluster of servers.
    3. No, you are not a super genius, and no, you're not making anywhere close to $3M a year.