Manager Veto Backfires: Blocked Engineer Signs $620K Anthropic Offer
aakashgupta · x · 2026-09-18
An engineer whose Google manager blocked his internal transfer twice just signed a $620K offer from Anthropic. The post explains how Big Tech deliberately builds transfer friction — manager sign-offs, ratings, timing windows — to keep critical teams staffed, an assumption AI labs have broken: internal moves keep you in-band, while Anthropic's median comp runs $420K and H-1B filings show MTS base salaries up to $1.38M, before equity in a company valued near $1 trillion. The manager veto has quietly lost its power.
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