Kelsey Hightower
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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He knows all of them.
for him to say that it was important.
And so I'm thinking, if Google wanted me to be at that level, they would have done it already.
But also, pragmatically speaking, no one really knows your situation.
All these people have thousands of people they manage.
They're not targeting you or being mean to you, at least in my case.
And so maybe they thought I was making that kind of money already.
Maybe they thought that I was already a distinguished engineer.
How would everyone in the org know?
They got other things to worry about.
So he presents the thing to them.
And I think within hours, they're like, this is no problem.
Don't worry about that number.
Here's a bunch of stock and all these things.
And I'm looking like, whoa.
So now I have the money and I'm at the company I want to be.
And you didn't do an ultimatum.
I didn't do the ultimatum.
So I felt good about the relationship.
I didn't feel like there was going to be some retaliation.