Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation

Re:Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation by ChuckMcM on Friday December 18, 2015 @05:20PM (#10761376)

I suspect its pretty certain, it certainly held true when I was working there and that was before Google was 50K employees. The flip side though is you may not make it to 5 years. A lot of employees don't (which is less commonly talked about) but Google has always tried pretty hard to not retain people who weren't providing what they considered an appropriate level of contribution.

So if you start working at Google, and you make it to 5 years, then yes I'm sure you'll be making $250k+ total compensation.

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Re:Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation by Jabbles on Friday December 18, 2015 @06:02PM (#10761580)

> A lot of employees don't

And what is your evidence for that?

I hope it's not an estimate for the average time an engineer has been at Google, which is clearly not the same thing.

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Re:Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation by ChuckMcM on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:46PM (#10762526)

I don't know if it is still true but there was a lot of data available during the 4 years I was there to watch this in "real time". Lots of data sources and a number of people interested in the question. You couldn't easily pull apart terms vs quits but at the end of the day it amounted to the same thing.

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