Mothers, Tell Your Children to Be Software Coders

I have very little difficulty believing that Google offers $280k salary packages routinely and that $8 million has been offered in GSUs to at least one engineer, but that being a routine enough offer to flummox a recruiter strikes me as unlikely.

Anybody at AmaGooFaceSoft want to provide a little color commentary here?

[Edit to add: I've been told, by multiple people I trust on the matter, that my sense of this was largely correct. $2 million a year is within the realm of feasibility for top contributors -- a handful in a year out of tens of thousands -- but very, very much not a standard offer for a generic 28 year old engineer.]

I always find myself irked by this kind of message - aside from looking like a cheap shot to drive labour costs down in the long term, I wonder if we are truly unable to find a middle ground between "follow your dreams (and die in a fire)" and "go do X right now because X is growing and pays nicely". What about "do what you'd like to do without losing sight of the reality"?

Paywall fail.