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 …
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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Yes, didn't mean to imply those opportunities were limited to infra teams, just an example. Disagree w.r.t. Lyft, their R&D expenses in 2019 were ~600m, for an upper bound on reducing costs (realistically, less than 20% of that). >1k engineers in Jan 2019.
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