"So all things considered, is she really worth $6 million? If she's a top 1% engineer, and a scarce female top 1% engineer at that, why not?"
Imagine if she was not only female, but a black, lesbian female. Why, she'd be worth billions!
Imagine if she was not only female, but a black, lesbian female. Why, she'd be worth billions!
Looking at organizations in general, the pay structure is definitely not a Normal distribution (which people might intuitively believe it should be). If the average there is $100k, the bunch of people earning more than $500k are in a different class altogether.
Eh? This is really sad - do Google really have to choose candidates that aren't the best in order to keep a particular balance of sexes. Is that company wide, department wide, etc..
I'd have thought a progressive company, like Google appear to be, would employ the best person for the job and do away with irrelevant discrimination.
I mean, Jewish folks are doing pretty good now, but in the past that would certainly have been the most persecuted and rare combination I can imagine!