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I saved my company $3million+ / year in Opex costs. Still waiting for my juicy $1million/year salary in reflection of the value I generated.
by __turbobrew__ 2y ago
I saved my company $3million+ / year in Opex costs. Still waiting for my juicy $1million/year salary in reflection of the value I generated.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoI made a former company $100M p.a. And all I got was a 30K bonus paid out over 6 years. Not even a promotion as I was on a visa. The asset required maintenance and without me it slowly degraded away. Every now and then I offer to go back and fix it for a flat $1M but instead they would rather believe that it’s impossible. You could imagine the sheer dysfunction required to let that much money go. A former colleague built a program that would have saved $30M p.a. in OpEx but as a policy they can’t deploy something unless more than two people understand it and they wouldn’t pay enough to hire someone capable enough. Probably would have taken $600K. It’s about power and in general management does not want to yield power to ICs no matter how much money they could make with it. The more productive the IC the more power management loses.
- hnthrow90348765 2y agoMy advice is to sleep on those kinds of improvements. Optimize things that are making your job/team's daily life more difficult, which directly translate into better WLB. You can sometimes knock significant hours-per-week off of your actual work done. We are giving away this expertise for fractions of a penny, but companies react to market pressures. Let them spend the extra $36 million for not keeping up with it. When they offer incentives, then do the work. Heck, maybe you can make an underhanded pitch to whatever cloud provider it was that you earned them millions by not fixing the issues.
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