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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by Animats on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:37PM (#15296897)
It's just an acqui-hire. "Google will keep the HTC brand and take on about 100 HTC engineers". Who won't get $3.3 million each.
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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by johansch on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:54PM (#15297054)
Those $3.3 million per engineer correspond to roughly 100 years of current salaries, according to the numbers I posted elsewhere in this thread. :/
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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by bagacrap on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:06PM (#15297144)
Those numbers seem exceptionally low and it seems unlikely Google would think these engineers worth paying a premium for if the rest of the industry apparently does not (i.e. if they're worth that much, they should have left to work somewhere else already).
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Re:Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware by johansch on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:10PM (#15297180)
Engineering seems widely undervalued as a profession in many asian locales (not in Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen though, but then you have to use air- and internet filters). I don't think they have any easy options if they want to stay in Taiwan.
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