I've been surprised at how many people think it's reasonable for companies like Lyft and Google to cut intern pay IME, opportunity cost of having senior devs ramp up interns dominates monetary cost, making intern pay cuts pointless https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23047687 … https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954012 …
we're not even a v. large company, should be easily 10x that at large companies. The reason I and others don't pick the free money up off the ground is that it's pretty strongly disincenvitized, shipping a single $20M/yr change beats 200 $1M/yr changes for silly political reasons
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And IMO it's wrong to say infra only, I've seen similar opportunities on revenue and product teams. Revenue for obvious reasons, product since latency reductions also drive revenue. Just for example, I know of one set of client-side optimizations, done on paternity leave, that
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increased overall company revenue by ~1% for a large company, which is a mind boggling amount of money. It was done on paternity leave because, per the discussion above, companies don't actually try to make money and the dev couldn't permission to do the work from their manager.
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