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Re:Leaving Google by abdabab on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:08AM (#28966840)
> employees would leave due to poor compensation

With a gross profit of 100 billion dollars a year [1] they can easily outbid the market compensation if they want to and stay with current revenue. But again how many Jeff Deans can one company need before it calls itself The Man?

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gros...

Re:Leaving Google by lotsofpulp on Saturday October 23, 2021 @09:22AM (#28968149)
Why would gross profit be the relevant metric here and not net profit?
Re:Leaving Google by abdabab on Saturday October 23, 2021 @03:40PM (#28971569)
You’re right. 63 billion dollars of net profit per year is a better metric.