Re:95%-ile isn't that good (2020)
by eru on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:03AM
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Thanks for the explanation!
Yes, I would advise against taking Google as an explanation. As far as I can tell, Google does have some 'secret sauce' that takes in good people and turns that into revenue. And in some sense, the market pays for that secret sauce in the sense that (going by your numbers) they only need to pay out 10% of their revenue as salary. (Though part of that is also just that they have other costs, like actually running data centres.)
I suspect the average employee at Google would find it quite a lot more uncomfortable to get the same total compensation from a company they just founded.
I've worked at Google before, and I've also been on a PIP before.
Yes, I would advise against taking Google as an explanation. As far as I can tell, Google does have some 'secret sauce' that takes in good people and turns that into revenue. And in some sense, the market pays for that secret sauce in the sense that (going by your numbers) they only need to pay out 10% of their revenue as salary. (Though part of that is also just that they have other costs, like actually running data centres.)
I suspect the average employee at Google would find it quite a lot more uncomfortable to get the same total compensation from a company they just founded.
I've worked at Google before, and I've also been on a PIP before.