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Not to sound offensive , but you're not A16z. 1.<< A16Z is rich enough to buy people>> No one is rich enough to buy people , unless well if you're talking about criminals. 2.Most good engineers will tell you , that money is NOT the primary motivator for them to build great products.( So aqui-hiring won't work) 3. As for Hackerrank--> that's what they're supposed to do - find people with good technical skills.

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Perhaps you're not technically buying a human being; but everyone's allegiance has a price.

I'll retract my statement if someone shows me real evidence that they've turned down a 500 (ok, perhaps 50 should be enough) million dollar job offer.

Yes every allegiance has a price , however What you're suggesting from what i understood is that A16z would pay 50 million dollars to a new hire. With them being in the VC business , i think they know that , such amount of money can possibly invested in growing their portfolios.

I don't have any evidence of any engineer being offered such exorbitant salaries , however this gets close.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-google-programmer-blew-off-...

If you can find a reputed VC firm like A16z , whose looking to do what you propose (please post a link)

(Late reply: better late than never)

Ok, it's somewhat of a hyperbole. 50M for a single hire is extremely exorbitant (after all, we're not european soccer players), but consider being offered a salary 5 times your current pay.

I'm loyal to my employer as hell, even though he only pays me around 45k (euros, yes, i should get more ;) and I'd like to think I'm 'morally gifted', so I wouldn't consider quitting my current job when someone offers me double... 3 times plus, is a different story, I'm scratch my head at least twice.

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