In more efficient tech orgs, what is the cost to replace an engineer as a % of salary?
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@patio11 Surely yearly tech refreshes are cheaper than the cost of ramping attributable to frustration with bad hardware.1 reply 0 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @orthonormalist @patio11
so amazon has this frugality thing right and an associated phenomenon calles internally "frupidity" an example:
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engineer notices his floor only has one coffee machine. note already this is shit tier coffee, really awful, known internally as "frugal juice"
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so he sits down and back of envelopes how much time is lost when everyone stands in the kitchenette waiting for the coffee machine to refill every morning, and the value of that time given average salaries of engineers and compares this to the price of another coffee machine
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this all typed out and cleanly formatted and showing god knows how many tens of thousands a year in net savings he submits a request for a second coffee machine to management immediately deniedpic.twitter.com/P1AA4vKlbe
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Replying to @eigenrobot @orthonormalist and
Did the coffee machine thing happen when you were there? It sounds about right to me unfortunately
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heard that story from another amazon veteran, i was a mere green badge while i was there
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Replying to @eigenrobot @orthonormalist and
I've definitely seen some frupidity, but luckily my management understands hardware is cheap compared to dev time
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