[bluedevilzn]

> And all that with wages well below even the local market in our crumbling Third World economy. With no exciting research positions nor self-managed time nor compensation, what was the advantage over a high-paying job at Microsoft or IBM?

When did Google pay less than Microsoft/IBM?

[esprehn]

I think the author is taking about Brazil? It wasn't clear to me until later in the article.

[rdlw]

The two-paragraph introduction explicitly places this article in Brazil in 2007