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Comment by valleyjo | Hacker News Reader

Don’t know. Seems absurd to me. There’s no way Sundar contributes 10x more value. Or anything even close to 200M IMO

I think it's fair to say that compensation is unlikely to be correlated with the actual value brought to the business. At best, correlated with perceived value by whoever sets the salary, in this case the board?

Are you suggesting that Google try to poach Satya Nadella? :) I would give a lot to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

Not saying it could never happen, but in addition to being the architect of a renaissance at one of the biggest, must well-known companies in the world, Satya is also a mcrosoftie from pretty much birth. I think it would take a lot more than gobs of money to make him jump.

Maybe Sundar is better at negotiating his salary than Satya? Can't think of any other logical reason

"It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along."

-Satya Nadella

He was rightly skewered for that comment. Biggest load of pure bull I’ve heard in a while.

You don’t get what you deserve. Often you don’t get what you ask for. You get only what you demand through persistent and effective negotiation.

This is true for a lot of things in life, but it is particularly true for engineering salary.

If your point was, perhaps his salary is so “low” because he actually believes what he said then you may be on to something.

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