Engineering labor is so valuable to companies that if getting a software engineer whatever fancy machine they want makes them some fraction of a percent more pr

Engineering labor is so valuable to companies that if getting a software engineer whatever fancy machine they want makes them some fraction of a percent more productive then it’s already a good ROI. The other thing to consider is that when you’re hiring software engineers, your competing with everybody else who’s also trying to hire software engineers. So if a candidate sees all your engineers using a laptop that they don’t want to use, they’re likely to take that into consideration when deciding whether they want to work for you. Expensive laptops, free food/drink, a gym, free massages, and all of those other perks you might find in software companies sound extravagant, but they’re such an easy and cost effective way to compete with other employers.