New York: Indra Nooyi, the former chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, has said that she has never, ever, ever asked for a raise as she found it cringeworthy and cannot imagine working for somebody and saying my pay is not enough.
Nooyi, 65, who helmed the beverage giant PepsiCo for 12 years and stepped down as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2018, has published a memoir My Life in Full’.
Born in Chennai, she graduated from the Madras Christian College and studied management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta before moving to Yale University in the US for a master’s degree.
She is considered as one of the most powerful and influential women leaders around the world.
I think it’s me, just me. I’ve never, ever, ever asked for a raise, Nooyi said in an interview to The New York Times Magazine in response to a question on whether there is anything gendered to her decision to turn down a raise.
When asked why she has never asked for a raise, she said I don’t know. I find it cringeworthy. I cannot imagine working for somebody and saying my pay is not enough. My husband and I talk about it all the time. He goes, This is more money than we ever thought we would make, so forget it.’ He’s that way too.
In her book, she writes about money when things were tight for her but she does not write about money when “presumably things were less tight, according to the interview.
She was asked how her attitude about money changed as she moved further ahead in her career when she was handsomely compensated. —PTI

Press Trust of India