Companies like Google often have several tiers of VP: VPs, Senior VPs, sometimes even Executive VPs, etc. It means that it's a manager very high in the hierarchy, but due to the company being big enough, there's non trivial amount of people like them among managers.
When I was at Yahoo, I remember someone famous (either Jeremy Zawodny or Rasmus) running a query and discovering that there was something ridiculous like 20 employees for every VP. Maybe someone else on HN has better details or a better memory than me, but I remember being shocked at how top heavy it was, and it explained a lot of what I saw at Yahoo over the 4+ years I was there.
I've heard a large number of non-native English speakers and British-English speakers pronounce "route" as "root". I can easily see an American-English speech-to-text or just American-English speakers choose "root" hearing one of these people pronouncing "route".
When I first heard "root" I got very confused because we were talking to Unix-adjacent stuff so I thought they were talking about the root user. Don't jump to conclusions.
solomatov|3 years ago
P.S. According to levels.fyi (https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Bloomberg,Amazon&trac...) Google has only VPs and SVPs, not EVPs.
advisedwang|3 years ago
steve1977|3 years ago
It doesn't, because there are so many of them. Looking at this for example: https://www.zippia.com/google-careers-24972/salary/vice-pres... I wouldn't say VP ranks very high at Google.
purpleblue|3 years ago
steve1977|3 years ago
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AlbertCory|3 years ago
I don't think anyone proofreads anymore. "rooted" is a word in the dictionary, so it passes the automated checker.
throwaway5959|3 years ago
giantrobot|3 years ago
When I first heard "root" I got very confused because we were talking to Unix-adjacent stuff so I thought they were talking about the root user. Don't jump to conclusions.
draw_down|3 years ago
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