[prepend]

Or could have paid the ceo $1M and kept 10 out of 250 at $200k. Do you think 10 would have stayed for $200k/year.

The point, I think, is that the Mozilla CEO is sucking, as measured by failing product lines and poor resource management resulting in firing 250 people, and got a raise.

[porcc]

I'm not a manager, but as a SWE I often hear that employees cost many multiples more than just their salary. $2M might account for <5 employees

[prepend]

That applies to the CEO too right? I was using net dollars. But the point stands with gross dollars.

I don’t think it’s about the number of devs but more about how they rewarded failure with a big raise.

[MagnumOpus]

I'm not a manager anymore, but I often hear that browser development can happen outside of the Valley, where annual programmer staff costs are less than 400k a year... Three million might buy you 200 competent SWE in Romania or Russia.