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1 hour per week of increased coding is a 5-7% boost in productivity, using the Amazon guidelines for how SDEs use their time — 50%/20hrs for SDE1 and 33%/13hrs
by zmgsabst 3y ago
1 hour per week of increased coding is a 5-7% boost in productivity, using the Amazon guidelines for how SDEs use their time — 50%/20hrs for SDE1 and 33%/13hrs for SDE3.
Is that enough to be competitive?
I’m not sure — but at scale that would be a 5% reduction in headcount for the same work, or ~$12M/yr for every 1,000 engineers.
If you can figure out how to get 2-3 hours more coding done a week, we’re talking real gains.
- fhd2 3y agoDepends on where the time is saved. If it's in figuring out how to do something in Django where StackOverflow is flooded with outdated answers, sure. I see those kinds of savings. But the tragic beauty of programming is that a little time saved today can very well mean lots of time lost later. The former you can measure, the latter is a tougher nut.