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At Yahoo in 2015 we had the CFO challenge: find cost savings and get a bonus up to $50k. I think it was $1k per $100k in annual savings. One guy turned off sta
by phamilton 4y ago
At Yahoo in 2015 we had the CFO challenge: find cost savings and get a bonus up to $50k. I think it was $1k per $100k in annual savings.
One guy turned off staging at night and saved $600k/yr.
- aetherane 4y agoDoesn't Yahoo have engineers in non-US timezones?
- marcinzm 4y agoOr testing an emergency fix if something breaks at 4am. Problem with these types of metric driven approaches is that it incentives explicitly not caring about second order effects or externalities. Good for the person getting the bonus but bad for the company as a whole.
- phamilton 4y agoWe had a particularly big staging environment for the small team we were. In fact we had 11 of them. This engineer, years earlier, had rolled out "bento box" environments where we could launch a full as many identical staging environments as we needed. I believe we did keep an official staging running, but the 11 bento environments were the ones that shut down at night.
- phamilton 4y agoThis was the staging for our specific team and we were all US based and on the west coast. I can guarantee you that they spent more than $50k/month on all staging environments.
- exceptione 4y agoSo he just got $6000 once for saving $600k/yr? Let's say the company didn't overspent on that, especially if you factor in that after 5 years €3M has already been saved. I don't know the incentives for sales, but I can imagine that theirs look better than 0,2% (if you just limit the projected savings over 5 years).