A 4X salary hike offer: Why Google's counteroffer to existing employee is making waves
A counteroffer of 300 per cent, or 4X, salary hike is what an employee rarely expects from their employee, or what a company management would think 100 times before offering to someone. But this is what happened with a Google employee recently, as revealed by Arvind Srinivas, CEO of the San Francisco-based Perplexity AI startup. In the Big Technology Podcast show, Srinivas told Alex Kantrowitz about his experience hiring a Google employee. Google counteroffered the employee something that is hardly seen or heard about in the corporate world. Read the story to know about the rare incident.
Google has laid off thousands of its employees in the last one year. Photo: Reuters/Representational