{"id":981261,"date":"2025-12-22T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981261"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:25:01","slug":"not-meta-like-100-million-pay-packages-the-biggest-reason-why-googles-ex-employees-are-returning-to-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/not-meta-like-100-million-pay-packages-the-biggest-reason-why-googles-ex-employees-are-returning-to-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Meta-like $100 million pay packages: The \u2018biggest\u2019 reason why Google\u2019s ex-employees are returning to company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Silicon Valley \u2018AI talent war\u2019 escalates into a multi-billion dollar bidding power struggle, Google has successfully deployed a \u2018boomerang\u2019 strategy to bring its top minds back to the company. While rivals like Meta and OpenAI are offering astronomical signing bonuses as mush as $100 million, Google is winning back its former staffers with a different kind of currency: Robust computational infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>Citing data, CNBC reported that approximately 20% of AI software engineers hired by Google in 2025 were former employees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Silicon Valley \u2018AI talent war\u2019 escalates into a multi-billion dollar bidding power struggle, Google has successfully deployed a \u2018boomerang\u2019 strategy to bring its top minds back to the company. While rivals like Meta and OpenAI are offering astronomical signing bonuses as mush as $100 million, Google is winning back its former staffers with a different kind of currency: Robust computational infrastructure Citing data, CNBC reported that approximately 20% of AI software engineers hired by Google in 2025 were former employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}