[fred256]

> He is reportedly the company's new vice president of engineering.

Google has dozens of “VPs of engineering”.

[solomatov]

Companies like Google often have several tiers of VP: VPs, Senior VPs, sometimes even Executive VPs, etc. It means that it's a manager very high in the hierarchy, but due to the company being big enough, there's non trivial amount of people like them among managers.

P.S. According to levels.fyi (https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Bloomberg,Amazon&trac...) Google has only VPs and SVPs, not EVPs.

[advisedwang]

Google does has SVPs. E.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/urs-h%C3%B6lzle-b3168365

[steve1977]

> It means that it's a manager very high in the hierarchy

It doesn't, because there are so many of them. Looking at this for example: https://www.zippia.com/google-careers-24972/salary/vice-pres... I wouldn't say VP ranks very high at Google.

[brunoTbear]

At least in PM land, director comp starts at $1M/yr, I'm sure VP comp is a multiple of that. The link you've provided is not accurate. Am Google PM.

[I_AM_A_SMURF]

That's inaccurate. VP is a really high title, most likely your manager's manager is Sundar Pitchai or someone who reports to him. TC is in the millions of dollars for those people.

[ricardou]

This is so wildly inaccurate. I know L3s making that much.

[vfturchin]

The link is wrong. Most VPs make more than that a month.

[purpleblue]

When I was at Yahoo, I remember someone famous (either Jeremy Zawodny or Rasmus) running a query and discovering that there was something ridiculous like 20 employees for every VP. Maybe someone else on HN has better details or a better memory than me, but I remember being shocked at how top heavy it was, and it explained a lot of what I saw at Yahoo over the 4+ years I was there.