Hey Googlers! All those perks the company is famous for: The great food, the high-end daycare, the fancy bathrooms? Overrated, your bosses say. So is the dream of getting insanely wealthy at your job.
Instead, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said today, you ought to be happy to work at Google…because it’s Google.
It’s back-to-school time for Google’s executive team, which is fanning out across college campuses to impart words of wisdom to the classes of 2009. Via Google’s YouTube, here are clips of co-founder Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt (twice!) and search boss Marissa Mayer. And some bonus advice, circa 1967.
David Geffen, who had previously tried to buy the Los Angeles Times, has been trying to buy a chunk of the New York Times. It’s not clear why. Also unclear: Why Google would have “looked seriously” at the opportunity to buy the Times in the last few weeks, as Fortune says it has.
Google’s new 2008 proxy statement looks a lot like Google’s proxy statements from previous years: It tells us that the company’s top executives received nice bonuses, though slightly smaller than last year’s. And Google’s ruling troika–CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page–all took home salaries of $1. One smallish change: Eric Schmidt’s friends and families spent a lot more time with him on the company jet last year.
Wall Street bonuses have shrunk, but they haven’t gone away. And at Google, top executive bonuses look pretty much like last year’s. Here’s the list of who got what.
Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »
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