    + Add a Comment   Let's be clear, an engineer didn't get
paid $10M in stock, an executive did. A senior vice president of
engineering is not an engineering position, it's an
executive/management position.  Christopher Fry may have an
engineering degree or started his career as a software engineer,
but Twitter did not pay him for being a talented engineer. He
was VP of Development at Salesforce before he worked for
Twitter. Engineers don't get paid $10M unless they're a co-
founder of a VC sweetheart that gets bought out or booms, no
matter how talented they are. That's executive pay.  The reason
is simple really. If you give an engineer $10M in stock, he
sells it as quickly as possible and starts his own company.
There's no reason to work for you any more, since he can work on
whatever he wants to now.  EDIT: Thanks to Forbes, I know what
his degree is in: Cognitive Science (PhD, though, which is
rather impressive)  (MPC seems to be blocking me from posting
the Forbes link. Google it.)    Sounds like an up