[tasuki]

> absolutely no one is smart or productive enough to justify $692m in pay.

Upper management isn't paid based on how smart or productive they are. Google has like 400 billion yearly revenue. A CEOs decisions have enormous consequences, if a CEO can make slightly better decisions than another, it'd be easy to justify $692m in pay.

That said, I don't believe Sundar Pichai is a great CEO. He's might be an ok bean-counter, not sure, but I'm pretty sure one can get cheaper bean-counters.

> they could hire thousands of engineers for that money.

Yes and pray what would they do with them?