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A coworker once suggested to our CTO that we should get bonuses as a % of the money we save by optimising our AWS costs. I was super on board with that plan at
by Eridrus 9y ago
A coworker once suggested to our CTO that we should get bonuses as a % of the money we save by optimising our AWS costs. I was super on board with that plan at the time since I had been thinking about an unmaintained system and had figured out we could shave off a huge chunk of storage saving us 20k/month with no impact on functionality, and I got the change deployed. Instead of a bonus I got laid off a few months afterward.
- brianwawok 9y agoIs there a reverse incentive here? *IF we bloat AWS costs for 1 year, then at year end find a way to cut 50k.. bam, big bonus? Maybe if the adding to AWS cost team is a different team from the lowering cost team...
- wil421 9y agoSomething like this happens all the time in Corportate IT, I've been seeing it a a lot lately. It goes like this VP agrees to do these projects in 2018 at X amount. VP gets the highest possible cost for X. VP cuts projects and/or project budgets down to bare minimum. Now he can say he saved whatever amount and is a hero for saving so much let's give him a fat bonus.
- carlmr 9y agoExactly, you can always fool the metrics, but everyone who is paid by metrics is doing it.
- Eridrus 9y agoI'm not saying this is a good metric, just relaying an anecdote :)