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This reminds me of the salary spreadsheet that was secretly passed around at google.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/07...

There wasn't anything secret about it.

I believe it was secret from people that do not work at Google? But I may be mistaken.

I looked for a while and wasn't able to find a version online. Only news stories referencing it. I'd love to be able to see what they're making, as I just went through interviews there last week.

Well yes, that would have been quite distasteful if said spreadsheet had made its way out of Google.

But it was definitely not a secret internally.

I suppose I should have said the spreadsheet was passed around internally at Google, although never released to the public. This was a great example of ambiguity in language. Imagine being a computer trying to parse my original sentence.

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