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  Therefore she made "those engineers" millionaries just as 
  much.
No. All contributions aren't equal. It takes someone special to write HipHop to compile PHP into C++. Engineers can (and do) do customer service in a pinch, customer service reps can't do engineering.

Doug Edwards, Google Employee 59, is more self-consciously reflective about this, recognizing explicitly in his biography that the company would have become successful if he weren't there. Losse and Sandberg only pat themselves on the back about hobbling the careers of engineers for their sins, real or imagined. If Losse could turn her own drunken donning of a bearskin rug into some bizarre cause for resentment, who knows what innocuous remark could have gotten transmogrified into cause for demotion or transfer of some hapless, apolitical engineer.



  > No. All contributions aren't equal. It takes someone
  > special to write HipHop to compile PHP into C++.
  > Engineers can (and do) do customer service in a pinch,
  > customer service reps can't do engineering.
The sheer hubris on display here makes me gag.


Is this statement true or false: Engineers can do customer service, but customer service reps can't do engineering.

You don't have to point this out as an engineer unless dealing with someone who doesn't realize how relatively incapable they are, like Losse.


Obviously you need to adjust for the difference in salaries. If they still aren't equal, that is not a very well run company. I realize it is naive to epect every salary to be exactly fair, but if the engineers are contributing signifficantly more per salary dollar, they are getting screwed.




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