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> I don't know how you could expect to be even that valuable I've had roles where I changed ~5 lines of code that resulted in at least my yearly salary worth o
by kod 7y ago
> I don't know how you could expect to be even that valuable
I've had roles where I changed ~5 lines of code that resulted in at least my yearly salary worth of reduced operating costs. Programming can be a high-leverage activity, FAANG salaries aren't necessarily irrational.
- sorokod 7y agoIs it possible that those ~5 lines of code where introduced by your predecessor who had a similar salary?
- kod 7y agoNo, they were introduced by the founder, and were getting the job done, just not anywhere near as efficiently.
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoYou should do a blog post about this.
- shoo 7y agothing kind of result may not necessarily be from doing anything particularly exotic, it may be largely a consequence of finding a situation where there's enough scale or leverage in making an change to a key component or bottleneck, finding something that is being done in a silly way, and improving it.