Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)

Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by cletus on Sunday November 06, 2011 @11:42AM (#3203078)

Outsourcing? Not even a little bit. Not only that but AFAIK contract engineers are incredibly rare and nonexistent in many product areas.

This isn't to say that Google doesn't have partnerships with external vendors. We do. But engineering in general is a core competency, something far too valuable and of strategic importance to outsource.

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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by ooorrr on Sunday November 06, 2011 @01:03PM (#3203321)

I can confirm this: you can basically count the number of contract engineers in the US on your fingers and toes.

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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by shazow on Sunday November 06, 2011 @04:01PM (#3203830)

Are we counting Google Account Managers hiring third-party contractors to do ad-hoc work for major clients?

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pylons-discuss/asqBrrEEhNo...

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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by skybrian on Sunday November 06, 2011 @08:55PM (#3204629)

There are exceptions. But for software engineers who contribute to Google's (non-open source) code base, Google pretty much got out of using contractors around 2008 or so. Some contractors became employees.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10107141-93.html

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