But that's would be counter to their interests. They want to hire this kid when he graduates. If they paid 10x their current bounty rates they'd have paid over $400,000 to him in the last couple of years of his free time. That's a great way to never be able to hire him.
Dude has cashed out a $10k and $30k bug bounty at the age of 18. Either he's lucky or he's very good. If he's the latter that $400k turns into an annual bounty.
And very, very few Google engineers make that kind of money.
> And very, very few Google engineers make that kind of money.
You'd be surprised. In Mountain View, everyone level 6 or above makes at least that amount, and most level 5s probably do as well. I'd guess that probably 20% of engineers are T5 or above, which is a ton of people when you multiply by tens of thousands of engineers.
Very few as a ratio. There aren't that many T6's and I'm not sold on the idea that "most" T5's are making $400,000 when the average is around $350,000 according to levels.fyi.
