Where are the engineers with an annual salary of 0.5 million US dollars? -- Transfer

【Where are the engineers with an annual salary of 0.5 million US dollars? -- Transfer]

What do engineers with an annual salary of 0.5 million US dollars do or what technologies they possess to make them so valuable? Are there any ways to learn these things?

Previously, Business Insider issued an article about a Google engineer who refused to pay 0.5 million yuan a year, because Google attaches an article worth $3 million a year, A person who is very interested in this number went to Quora and asked, What should I do to be the same with him? I also want to go to work at Google and earn an annual salary of 3 million US dollars (who doesn't want ?)

The entrepreneur named Amin Ariana wrote a comment on Quora and was praised for the answer. Winston Chen, the translator of this article, was inspired by many ideas. Therefore, he was allowed to contact Amin, translated the original text.

The content of this article is as follows: 

Statement: I used to be a Google employee, but my answer does not represent Google's point of view.

First of all, this question is a bit strange and misleading. It seems that as long as the engineer does what time, or obtains what skills, it can be linked to a 0.5 million annual salary guarantee. In fact, Business Insider makes it very clear that the $0.5 million is actually the sum of salary and stock.

Class I and Class II workers 

To understand the conditions behind high compensation, let me first make an analogy.

Assume that you are a very important labor in the village and are responsible for water supply. There are two types of labor: Class 1 labor and class 2 labor.

One or two water buckets will be picked up by one type of workers, rushed to the water source, filled with them, picked them up, about 20 people to drink, so that all the villagers who drink water are happy. The labor may drink some water and return to the village. He may be able to pay for it.

Second-class workers are not quite familiar with the so-called "fair water separation" concept. They will pick up a shovel, bring it to a water cup, and then suddenly disappear. He ran to the water source and dug a creek that could be connected to the village, hoping to bring the water source. Every time he dragged his tired body and carried an empty cup back to the village, he would always be disappointed, but I don't know why the elders in the village trust him, believe in what he is doing (also give him a bone to chew, so that he will not be hungry ).

One day, he stood straight in front of the village, and a creek of drinking water was lying behind him. The creek immediately drove a class of workers specialized in "Water Express" out of the market, so they had to switch and join other teams. This second-class worker depends on how much control he has over the creek. Generally, he has a lot of ownership over the creek.

Later, the village decided to buy the whole Creek and integrate it into the water supply system of the whole village, so the village exchanged some of their property, such as land or something, the second-class workers instantly changed to landlords.

The media in the village noticed that the village had a very high salary for the second-class workers. The villagers in other villages could not dig for him (he should have signed an agreement with the village, for example, if you want to stay in the village for two years, you can get a full reward, but because the village pays too much, the second-class workers will not consider it at all.

At this time, a class of workers watched the media report and felt that the village was waiting for them, but they were not satisfied with their work.

Scammers on the beach 

　　

Let's talk about a real story.

During the New Year's Eve this year, I ran to Monterey Bay. A young man was digging holes on the beach. I stood up in height with great interest. My wife enjoyed the beautiful beach, others do not care about the actions of this young man. No one cares about him. I pointed to him and turned to his wife and said, "You are waiting to see it. 30 minutes later, everyone around you will join us and help the young man dig ."

30 minutes later, he dug out a small channel, extending straight from the castle on his beach to the place where there was water on the beach, hoping to bring the sea into the channel and inject it into his moat. That channel is not deep enough, and the sea water is still inaccessible, so young people are busy deepening the river. Five minutes later, the busy kids who were standing next to them began to join and help. 10 minutes later, several adults around the world began to explore. 15 minutes later, a shy foreigner carrying a camera also helped. Within 60 Minutes, the second-class labor affected the voluntary investment of 15 first-class workers and introduced sea water into moat.

The photo above was taken at that time to permanently commemorate my bet on my personal strength. The guy with a purple bucket is the creator of the channel, but it cannot be seen in the photo.

News reports always like to ignore a lot of real details. This 0.5 million annual salary report ignores the "sweat is not equivalent" part. Second-class workers are willing to break through the status quo. Sometimes they may suffer from hunger for a short period of time to introduce the water source on which the village depends. second-class workers exchange salaries with their jobs and skills, the main difference between the two is adventure, and it is not guaranteed that they will be recycled.

The far-sighted group of people in the village can be said to be second-class workers (those who receive high salaries in Google). They have a blue ray of roads to link mountains and forests to the water sources in the village. These guys who take a lot of stock are probably one of the following:

• When goolge was founded, the Group was already responsible for creating its core value
• When you are in your spare time, you can play with your project (side project). Then, the company finds that the group is extremely useful and valuable. Gmail grew from a side project to a core goolge product .)
• Start a new company on your own and get it from Google.
• I don't know why I can become the only provider of a certain core technology or skill.

In addition, this kind of treatment is mostly imagined out of thin air and used to sell many Business Insider articles.

No admission notification worth $19 billion 

Every heart will sing and sing incomplete until the other heart comes with him. -- Plato

I have received many comments, some of which told me that the stories listed above are hard to be applied to their lives, and others asked about the techniques for negotiating equity with the company, I hope to earn $0.5 million in revenue. Other comments say that I have not answered his questions in this article.Most of the reviewers are a type of labor. They are still thinking about how to increase their market value and generate higher "income ".

Let me tell you another story, a story that happened in the previous article within a week. I hope this time will be more specific and easy to understand.

In May 2009, a certain type of Workers applied for Twitter, but he was rejected. In August 2009, he ran to Facebook again and he was rejected. What should I do? He decided to give it a try and pick up the beam of the second-class workers from the water source of "Enhancing human communication, the two companies that used to reject services of the same type had a need for the stream.

Along the way, he and his friends who dug up the creek with him influenced 55 people to join the team and worked together. The elders in the village also lost some bones to him. At first, they only paid 0.25 million US dollars, for the next 8 million USD, we watched the stream become more and more successful. Sequoia venture capital then injected $50 million in funds.

Three hours before I wrote this article, CNN just reported that the work of their second-class workers was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion (you didn't hear it wrong, $19 billion ).

Facebook bought WhatsApp. Brian Acton, who has helped Facebook mine for five years, has officially become a shareholder of Facebook, the one who refused to apply for a job.

Prior to his excavation (before he started WhatsApp), he wrote the two tweets:

• Twitter Headquarters does not want me. It doesn't matter. It's a long way from my home.
• Facebook does not want me either. But that is a great opportunity for people to socialize. I am looking forward to the next journey in my life.

Do you think that 55 people need to negotiate with Facebook to pay 0.5 million US dollars? Or do you think that when those people leave Facebook for profit, Facebook will pay a heavy sum of money and take out shares to keep them?

　　Second-class workers do not compare or negotiate salaries because they are not selling their labor to the village (company)They sell undervalued wealth, and the villages that bid for them have no other options. They can only come up with figures relative to these wealth, the wealth of these second-class workers, it can benefit both the village and the village (you can see the stock price of Facebook's rush ).

You can think about whether there are any villages that are willing to sit on the other side of the negotiating table when you want to sell the water you have dug. When the village decides to buy water, it is only the basic condition that the Salary Bar has more than a few zeros.

 

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Translation: Winston Chen

Where are the engineers with an annual salary of 0.5 million US dollars? -- Transfer