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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by ken on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:25PM (#19559525)
Stupid question: why are Google engineers so obsessed with promotion? I'm sure any entry-level engineer there makes more than I ever have in my life, and anyone who hasn't cashed in their billion-dollar startup lottery ticket by now is far too late to the party to ever do so.

What exactly is the benefit of promotion? Is a 6-figure salary and all the perqs in the world not enough? At all the places I've worked, from tiny startups to big stable companies, I haven't seen this phenomenon. Does Google's rapid rise simply attract the sorts of people who feel they deserve it?

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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by bradlys on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:57PM (#19559952)
You could go from making $200k/yr to $400k/yr with one to two promotions.

It's a big jump and for people who live in an area where homes are regularly $2-4m (they're not even nice homes), you have to make big money in order to afford one.

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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by Aeolun on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:34PM (#19559584)
I’m not sure I understand this perspective. If I’m making 100k, and I could be making 150k by being promoted, while working on interesting new things at the same time (regardless of success), then that is what I would be doing.

Little point in sticking at 100k my whole career for some misplaced sense of honor.

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