Remember that Google pays Porat over $40 million per year to do what is probably one of the easier jobs at the company. If I was going to cut costs I know where I’d start.
Her job is not just to cut costs. And its not a simple job by any stretch.
Neither is writing optimizer passes for llvm, but the people doing that are making less than a million a year while having a huge impact on the company’s bottom line. For some management clown to come along and suggest that those people should not get promoted so that Porat et al can continue taking helicopters to work is disgusting.