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(This is how I contributed roughly $3MM of value to one company as a kid who barely knew how to program) Care to tell this story?
by BCM43 15y ago
(This is how I contributed roughly $3MM of value to one company as a kid who barely knew how to program)
Care to tell this story?
- SatvikBeri 15y agoWhen I joined I spent a lot of time asking people what they did, making mind maps, and finding lots of patterns. I quickly realized that there was a lot of repetition, and that in theory it should be possible to automate, though I had no idea how. So I hit the books, learning everything I could about SAS (the main repeated tasks involved reporting/analytics) and Windows Powershell. Eventually I figured out how to automate it all, and did so. This freed up time for a lot of people, let the company hire less, allowed them to meet government deadlines that would have brought the wrath of god upon them if they failed, cancel a $1.2MM consulting project that would have taken 2 years and accomplished half of what I did, made it massively faster to create new reports, drastically reduced our error rates... So basically, the key was that I really put in the effort to learn the business processes and politics, and just assumed that it would be somehow possible to automate all this stuff without really knowing how.