 In October 2007 she was involved with an illegal non-solicitation compact to not poach engineers from Apple Inc.

"Fortune" ranked Brown the sixth highest paid woman in 2010, with over $16 million in total compensation.Effective April 13, 2011, Brown kept her title of senior vice president for Google, but business operations and human resources were moved under chief financial officer Patrick Pichette.She became a senior vice president for the Google.org charitable group (following Megan Smith) from April 2011 to December 2012.