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That's not a measure of how much work engineers are doing. It's a measure of how effective the company is at making money from the work their engineers are doin
by TheCoelacanth 4y ago
That's not a measure of how much work engineers are doing. It's a measure of how effective the company is at making money from the work their engineers are doing.
- trebbble 4y agoRight. Consider how different the profit of a company hiring $300,000/yr software engineers to mow lawns 8 hours per day might be, compared with another company hiring them to... write extremely valuable software 4 hours per day. The company with (let's say) identically-skilled employees putting in twice as many hours probably won't be the more profitable of the two. Replace "mow lawns" with "write pointless, doomed-from-the-start messaging apps" and the actual problem starts to become clear.
- Ekaros 4y agoOr more exactly how much work the engineers have done in past and how big moat the management or luck have build... Sometimes I really wonder how much the current employees contribute in companies like MS, Google and Meta...