Hacker News Reader

Comment by fred256 | Hacker News Reader

> He is reportedly the company's new vice president of engineering.

Google has dozens of “VPs of engineering”.

Companies like Google often have several tiers of VP: VPs, Senior VPs, sometimes even Executive VPs, etc. It means that it's a manager very high in the hierarchy, but due to the company being big enough, there's non trivial amount of people like them among managers.

P.S. According to levels.fyi (https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Bloomberg,Amazon&trac...) Google has only VPs and SVPs, not EVPs.

Google does has SVPs. E.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/urs-h%C3%B6lzle-b3168365

> It means that it's a manager very high in the hierarchy

It doesn't, because there are so many of them. Looking at this for example: https://www.zippia.com/google-careers-24972/salary/vice-pres... I wouldn't say VP ranks very high at Google.

At least in PM land, director comp starts at $1M/yr, I'm sure VP comp is a multiple of that. The link you've provided is not accurate. Am Google PM.

That's inaccurate. VP is a really high title, most likely your manager's manager is Sundar Pitchai or someone who reports to him. TC is in the millions of dollars for those people.

This is so wildly inaccurate. I know L3s making that much.

The link is wrong. Most VPs make more than that a month.

When I was at Yahoo, I remember someone famous (either Jeremy Zawodny or Rasmus) running a query and discovering that there was something ridiculous like 20 employees for every VP. Maybe someone else on HN has better details or a better memory than me, but I remember being shocked at how top heavy it was, and it explained a lot of what I saw at Yahoo over the 4+ years I was there.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com