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The article does not support this claim. My reading is that GOOG's HR department kept/keeps the salary curve artificially flat (over-rewarding low performers) t
by accountoftheday 13y ago
The article does not support this claim. My reading is that GOOG's HR department kept/keeps the salary curve artificially flat (over-rewarding low performers) to manage pay within a narrow band and thereby prevent having to negotiate with top performers.
- nerfhammer 13y agoThis is also an effect of the "flat" org structure. Few annoying managers! and also almost no chance of becoming one of those managers.
- judk 13y agoI don't understand how employee A's salary is a factor in whether Employee B gets negotiated with.
- nerfhammer 13y agoFrom the article: > Google, like the others, used a “salary algorithm” to ensure salaries remained within a tight band across like jobs. Although tech companies like to claim that talent and hard work are rewarded, in private, Google’s “People Ops” department kept overall compensation essentially equitable by making sure that lower-paid employees who performed well got higher salary increases than higher-paid employees who also performed well.
- AutoCorrect 13y agoI'm in Atlanta, and our company does this too. So it's not just SV that is keeping salaries low.
- walshemj 13y agoShifting the curve of distribution (changing its Skewness) alters the entire distribution this is basic statistics 101. A positive skew will effectively reduce all employees wages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness