My dad attested to this as well. He said it is absurd how cheap you can buy employee loyalty with free snacks and soda. Even at a 100 person company, they wer

My dad attested to this as well. He said it is absurd how cheap you can buy employee loyalty with free snacks and soda. Even at a 100 person company, they were spending ~$600 / week on snacks but when you factored in that developers cost $30+ / hr alone, you are buying time for such a low price. You are literally giving a developer $2 for $15+ of their time. That is even discounting the price of keeping them in the same brain space and some possible cross-team germination.