Googler Offered $3.5M to Turn Down Facebook

[icemunk]

Facebook is a fad, google will be around much longer

 

[cookoy]

thought Googler is the name of a startup company. Facebooker sounds awful too.

 

[iamtheking123]

[citation][nom]fayzaan[/nom]He could just get fired after he has completed whatever project he may be working on. I don't think this is a great tactic. When you inform/threaten to leave and decide later to stay because management asked you to or because you got some incentive, I believe they just want you to stay until the job is done. After that, if they have no reason to keep you they'll let you go.[/citation]
Does it really matter when you've got 3.5 million worth of Google stock in your pocket?

 

[Guest]

"I tried that tactic once... wound up with out job..."

You can only do this if you've made yourself difficult to replace, such as writing some highly complex code that only you fully understand, to the extent that your team-mates cannot easily maintain it.

OTOH, if you're some punter taking tech-support calls at a call center that has high-turnover anyways, you can bet they won't care if you leave, even if you were doing a good job.

 

[hiruu]

WOW...must be nice to be loved!

 

[aaron88_7]

While the rest of you argue about the amount this guy is being compensated to stay with Google, I think the bigger story is that Google is paying so much to keep talent AWAY from Facebook. If this isn't proof they are developing their own social site to compete I don't know what is.

As for the guy being compensated so much, who cares? If your talents can wage that kind of cash then good for you. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

 

[treefrog07]

It's called capitalism baby! Go get what you are worth from your employer, or go start your own business.

 

[Mizoguchi]

Gotta keep my grades up at Cornell and get hired by Google. (x

 

[lukeeu]

[citation][nom]STravis[/nom]I doubt he's a software developer... they usually don't get paid that kind of scratch...[/citation]
This is Google. They hand pick best of the best from universities and take those who otherwise end up with a postdoctoral degree. Elite amongst them is definitely worth 3.6M

 

[dEAne]

I would like to work in google too.

 

[alyoshka]

GREED...... looks like it isn't a sin anymore.....

 

[Flameout]

y keep someone that wants to work for facebook? would u really want to keep someone like that?

 

[Dirtman73]

[citation][nom]lukeeu[/nom]Elite amongst them is definitely worth 3.6M[/citation]

That's entirely debatable.

 

[ira176]

It's almost made out to sound like an affair.

 

[sudeshc]

Wow thats why Google rocks, wish i was that person hehehehe

 

[thebigt42]

[citation][nom]jenkem[/nom]*applies to google*[/citation]
He has pictures of a Google VIP with a goat

 

[noveloa]

LOL, I remember when I worked at a company that we all love but shall remain unnamed there was a tech that said he was offered a position at the competitor being XFX. He told management that he would consider staying if they gave him a considerable offer. Lets just say the owner of the company called the owner of XFX who denied such claims. This tech lost his job...

 

[gabrieljaquish]

wow, they better watch every employee doesn't try that little trick

 

[dustcrusher]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]...I think the bigger story is that Google is paying so much to keep talent AWAY from Facebook. If this isn't proof they are developing their own social site to compete I don't know what is.[/citation]They already have it- it's called Orkut. Big in Brazil and India so I hear.