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Re:Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks ... by rjzzleep on Thursday May 04, 2023 @07:31PM (#35823492)
Do they? I'm sure they run something, but I'm not sure they're the ones telling Pichai constantly which services to cut. To launch Stadia, to kill Stadia, to get Pichais buddy to take over Google Pay, to fire Pichais buddy who runs Google Pay.

Maybe they are micromanaging nightmare bosses, I wouldn't know. But from all I have seen, from the very start of Pichais tenure, he definitely deserves a huge chunk of the blame.

I don't think that Google's market cap increased by ~$890B because of Pichai, it increased despite him.

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Re:Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks ... by MrSqueezles on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:15AM (#35829516)
Yes. This is correlation, not causation. He has been focused on diversification away from ads and hasn't been performing especially well.

His pay is likely set years in advance, based on performance metrics. Sundar is riding the ads wave to huge payouts in spite of his massive failures, Google Plus, Stadia, devices, especially ChromeOS tablets, mismanaging Cloud, and on, and on...

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