[chanderson0]

Back-of-the-envelope math:

Suppose Google were to implement the same policy. Their quarterly profits last quarter were $2.5B, and had approximately 30,000 employees. So 10% of $2.5B split among 30k employees means an average quarterly bonus of $8,300, or a yearly bonus of $33k.

This seems like a pretty good bonus, particularly since if Google used salary.com to define their salaries, an incoming software engineer in the Bay Area would make $70k.

[onemoreact]

On day one you would only be getting 2.5% not 10% so 8,250$. However, if you have 4x the average senority then you would get 33k x (.75 x 4 + .25) = 107k which would be much harder to walk away from.