Eric Schmidt in August 2001. At Google, Schmidt shared responsibility for Google's daily operations with founders Page and Brin. Prior to the Google initial public offering, Schmidt had responsibilities typically assigned to the CEO of a public company and focused on the management of the vice presidents and the sales organization. According to Google, Schmidt's job responsibilities included "building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while the product development cycle times are kept to a minimum." Upon being hired at Google, Eric Schmidt was paid a salary of $250,000
Oliver Schmidt (engineer) Detroit judge found Schmidt guilty and sentenced him to seven years in prison and fined him $400,000. Oliver Schmidt (engineer) Oliver Schmidt (born 1969) is an engineer and former Volkswagen AG executive, who in 2017 was sentenced to seven years of prison due to his involvement in the Volkswagen emissions scandal. After studying mechanical engineering in Hannover, Schmidt was employed by Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg. At the age of 35 Schmidt was transferred to the USA, where he from 2012 oversaw VW's emissions office in Michigan. In January 2017 while returning to Germany from a vacation Schmidt was arrested in