Google's autonomous car project, now operating as its own organization called Waymo, is funded by an incredible amount of money. So much of that money was distributed to staffers on the project, as it's now being reported, that they no longer had an incentive to stay with the company.

In a report by Bloomberg, the self-driving car organization had an "unusual" way of compensating employees, where workers' pay was calculated by considering the overall performance of the autonomous car project. Salaries and bonuses, rather than remaining consistent, increased when the project hit certain milestones.