Programmers don't create revenue when they are hired. There is a significant training period where programmers learn the local culture and quirks and tools. It

Programmers don't create revenue when they are hired. There is a significant training period where programmers learn the local culture and quirks and tools. It takes a while before they can become effective. Once programmers are effective, it can take months or years or longer before a project they work on gets any significant revenue. --------- Consider all the money Facebook sank into the Metaverse, with nothing to show for it yet. Or consider the typical video game, that takes maybe 3+ years to go from programming into revenue. The 1 to 2 year hiring period from 2020 to 2022? I bet that most of these programmers did not create any revenue by the firing times of Q4 2022. It's just not how this industry works.