Re:Hacking Google for Fun and Profit
by richardburton on Thursday December 15, 2011 @02:03AM
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I am in awe of your skills. This is the first time I have heard of this program and I must say that I am a little surprised at how little money they offer to developers in return for them exposing potentially catastrophic bugs. Some engineers at Google must be paid rough $500/hour and more so you would have thought that finding bugs of this magnitude for say $10,000 a pop would still be cheap.
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> Some engineers at Google must be paid rough $500/hour and more
You reckon? I doubt that engineers are making ~$1m/yr...
But I agree, that the time spent by someone discovering a bug is worth well over $500. Let say you spend 3-4 evenings playing with it and you find something. that roughly translates into 2 full days of work. Assuming $500-700/day figure (which might actually represent a significant amount of engineers at Google) they should be paying at least $1-1.5k per bug. But even that is on a cheap side I think...
Re:Hacking Google for Fun and Profit
by richardburton on Friday December 16, 2011 @04:27PM
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You are right. $500/hour might be a bit extreme but I think we both agree Google is extremely cheap!