Re:Sergey Brin: “Irate Call from Steve Jobs”
by jjulius on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:01PM
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>$250,000 annually.
Ah crap, that's what I get for posting in the middle of the night while wide awake and sick. Thanks for the correction, and agreed - the difference between $250 million and $250k doesn't change my point.
... which still isn't table scraps. median income in the US is $30k.
I am a software engineer, but even I have a hard time finding deep sympathy for people complaining that they are making 10x the median salary but they should have made 20x.
Call me old-fashioned, but at the end of the day in our industry, what's "fair" is what you agreed to. None of the people in the cold-calling scandal were forbidden from making overtures to the competing companies or being hired by them. And it's real hard for me to dredge up feelings of injustice for the embarrassed sub-millionaire when so many are forced to figure out how to live on 1/10th of that money.
If you don't like your Google salary, just put your resume in at Apple. That's my advice.