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How much does a typical Apple programmer make a month? Salary no doubt, but I’m not aware that a team is operating at a million+ a day. Red Bulls don’t cost th
by incahoots 3y ago
How much does a typical Apple programmer make a month?
Salary no doubt, but I’m not aware that a team is operating at a million+ a day. Red Bulls don’t cost that much, and I doubt any of them are taking yoga classes during their shift lol
- TX81Z 3y agoI suspect most of that figure is in machine time, but otherwise they pay engineers a lot and Apple likewise occupies a non-trivial % of all the commercial real estate in Cupertino, employees security guards, other staff, etc. These numbers seem right to me.
- Firmwarrior 3y agoApple pulls in hundreds of millions per day, I'd think that a lot of them should be going to AI if they want to remain relevant.. it's not hard to imagine Google, Facebook, or maybe even a seriously retooled Microsoft coming out with an earbud that acts as a smart assistant and pretty much replaces the modern smartphone
- TX81Z 3y agoGoogle keeps demoing vapor ware at I/O to that effect but have yet to deliver. Honestly think Apple will go to market first.
- incahoots 3y agoMachine time was a metric that never made any sense to me. I should’ve lead off with machine time excluded that millions a day statement seems hyper inflated.
- late25 3y agoI suspects it’s hardware costs not personnel (or RedBull :) ) costs.
- incahoots 3y agoMakes sense, I should’ve lead off with that.
- kristjansson 3y agoIt'd only be few hundred engineers to get to $1m/day. Or like 4k H100s if they're so behind the eight ball they're paying on-demand rates.
- incahoots 3y ago>4K H100s Shots fired but you’re not wrong. Wild how that doesn’t get more attention.