This Guy Got $58 Million for 15 Months of Work
Henrique de Castro was booted as COO by Marissa Mayer after she personally poached him from Google about 15 months earlier. Mayer said de Castro “was not a fit and that’s a regrettable conclusion,” but he still walked with $58 million in salary, bonuses and stock.
Source – Time
I could be twice as incompetent in half the time for that sort of money. The interesting thing about this is according to this article Yahoo is worth approximately zero as a business. So my guess is that everyone from the CEO down is overpaid.