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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. Yeah, well I took a $3 Million Dump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I was finished wiping the my shit encrusted ass hairs, I ordered that the busiest bridge in the world be sabotaged to exact political retribution...

    I'm such a barrel assed fucking saboteur that it's no wonder that I am the governor of New Jersey.

  2. Re:The whole things smells fishy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm the licker of rectums. I am the puppet master. I am the one who Bings. I am all of these things! Why do you cower? Because my power cannot be comprehended by an insignificant existence such as yourself! In that case, why do you even exist!? Disappear.

  3. 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.