Srinivas: Google quadrupled an engineer's pay to stop Perplexity recruitment
Aravind Srinivas · Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google · Feb 15, 2024 · at 10:13
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, recounts Google's extreme retention counter-offer when Perplexity attempted to recruit an engineer from Google's core search team.
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“There was one amazing candidate that I tried to recruit from Google. This candidate used to work in the, I mean, he still works there, in the Google search team. Like, it's not one of the AI people. And the moment he told them that he's gonna join us, they quadrupled his offer.”
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