Silicon Valley: Twitter engineers pay 10 million dollars a salary

Phoenix Science and technology news Beijing time October 14, according to Reuters, Silicon Valley in the current competition for first-class engineering talent is very fierce. In order to attract talent, many companies come up with generous pay and benefits. The prospectus shows that Twitter, a senior vice president of Engineering, has a yearly salary of $10 million, after the CEO, more than the CFO, CTO and other executives. Christopher Foy Christopher Fry, senior vice president of Twitter, paid $10.3 million last year, after CEO Dick Costello (Dick Costolo), the Twitter IPO document showed. This means that Foy's salary is higher than that of Twitter CTO Adam Messing Adam Messinger, CFO Maik Gupta (Mike Gupta), COO Ari Rohani (Ali Rowghani). With the influx of venture capitalists supporting start-ups, Silicon Valley lacks first-rate engineering talent. In order to attract talent, Silicon Valley companies have significantly increased the pay standards. "The number of top-tier engineers in Silicon Valley has not grown," says Iain Grant, a recruiter for Riviera, a recruiting firm, "but the demand for these talents has soared in the market." Ain Grant "Riviera is good at recruiting engineers for VC-backed startups," he said. Venky Ganesan, a venture capitalist Ganassen, said a start-up company had provided the latter with a one-year charter for Tesla cars in order to obtain a coveted engineer. According to the surrounding area of reference prices, the Tesla sedan monthly rent of 1000 dollars. Ganassen declined to disclose the name of the company, whose company had invested in the start-up company. The prospectus shows that the majority of Foy's remuneration comes from equity awards, which were valued at $10.1 million last year. The Foy basic salary is 145,153 USD and the bonus is 100,000 dollars. (Compiling/Xiao Yu)