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> Nine years later—after 185,000 hours of product development, $1.2 million in investment, and 45 different iterations—a new design will be rolling out in the U
by tablespoon 4y ago
> Nine years later—after 185,000 hours of product development, $1.2 million in investment, and 45 different iterations—a new design will be rolling out in the U.K. within the next couple of months.
Is that legal? That works out to just under $6.50 hour.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThis is journalist math. It's guaranteed to be wrong.
- xsmasher 4y agoYour math assumes the money was spent entirely on labor, not on equipment or prototypes.
- tablespoon 4y ago> Your math assumes the money was spent entirely on labor, not on equipment or prototypes. But wouldn't that reduce the hourly rate I calculated? I find it hard to interpret "185,000 hours of product development" as anything but 185,000 man-hours of product development.
- v-erne 4y agoI'm guessing outsourcing? With enough Bangalore interns You can get even more impressive numbers ...