The CEO of AMD will not offer $ 100 million of wages to poach talents like Mark Zuckerberg – she says that the more important staff do not feel like a `centile in the wheel ”

“I think that competition for talent is fierce. I am a believer, however, that money is important, but frankly, it is not necessarily the most important thing when you attract talent,” Lisa su, CEG of $ 284 billion said recently Cable. “I think it is important to be in the postal code (of these figures), but it is super important to have people who really believe in the mission of what you are trying to do.”
Instead, she wants the future HMP hires to be courted by the idea of being part of the dazzling climb of the company and to have an impact on the future of technology.
“From the point of view of recruitment, it’s always like:” Do you want to be part of our mission? ” Because driving is really what we are trying to attract people.
In addition, it is not as if the members of AMD staff were underpaid: “I think people did relatively well here, because the stock was done well,” added Su.
At the end of the day, the 55 -year -old CEO said that the distribution of $ 100 million wages with new employees would be unfair for existing workers on remuneration plans, still working.
“It is not really one person in our world,” said Su. “I mean, it’s really great people, don’t get me wrong – we have incredible people.”
Fortune contacted AMD to comment.
The $ 100 million zuckerberg salary package “tries to buy something that cannot be purchased”
SU is not the only managing director of Silicon Valley refusing to match Zuckerberg’s eye remuneration packages. The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, is not willing to pay $ 100 million in reprisals in poaching. And the two leaders agree on one thing: their companies care about promoting innovation above all – and this motivation cannot be purchased with nine -digit wages.
“I think what they do is try to buy something that cannot be bought, and it is an alignment on the mission. I think there are selection effects here,” recently revealed Amodei on the Big Technology Podcast. “Do they become the most enthusiastic people, who are the most aligned on the mission, who are the most excited?”
Meta PDG managed to poach at least seven employees of Rivales IA companies, including Openai with its $ 100 million offer. But the leader of Anthropic is categorical that most of his employees refuse it, and “would not even speak” in Zuckerberg.
Echoing the CEO of AMD that it would be unfair to pay or treat staff members differently in the AI talent war, Amodei thinks that it could stifle innovation. In fact, he thinks that the fight against fire with fire by offering the same compensation for the sky “would destroy” in fact the corporate culture.
“We are not willing to compromise our principles of remuneration, our principles of equity, to respond individually to these offers,” said Amodei. “The way things work at Anthropic is that there is a series of levels. A candidate arrives, they are assigned a level, and we do not negotiate this level, because we think it is unfair. We want to have a systematic way.”
The anthropogenic chief said that Meta, and by extension, Zuckerberg, tries to buy employees who will be devoted to driving their AI models to new heights. But he may find it difficult to find such loyalty; Anthropic has an 80% retention rate for employees hired in the past two years, while Meta is 64% late.
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