[gaius]

the suggestion to reduce the number of people promoted by 2 percent—which meant that some qualified people

Wasn’t it from 10% to 8%? That 2% is misleading there, it makes it look far less significant than it was.

Google’s human-resources department presents potential ways to cut the company’s $20 billion compensation budget

I guarantee there are cost savings to be had in the HR department, but I bet there was no slide on that

[JJMcJ]

Remember when Facebook busted the wage fixing cartel fueled by Steve Jobs tantrums.

Somehow Google had enough money to give the entire engineering staff a 10% raise. I'm sure they'd like to bring that back.