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Pretty much this. I too have done both private sector and government. People think government is more wasteful than private because it's public. When government
by Volundr 2y ago
Pretty much this. I too have done both private sector and government. People think government is more wasteful than private because it's public. When government wastes a few million some unneeded program the details are just an FOIA request away. Oftentimes it's already published somewhere if you know where to look.
That (even a publicly traded one) business wasting millions on a Salesforce rollout that never gains traction and gets quietly abandoned? Odds are no one not directly involved knows. And the exec pushing it gets promoted.
- xoac 2y agoI witnessed the described Salesforce scenario first hand. The amount of waste and dissonance was staggering.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoIn a past job, my company lost track of tens of thousands of servers. They were racked up, powered up, sitting at a PXE boot screen for almost 5 years before someone noticed them sitting idle. They were storage nodes with pci-e flash storage (very expensive at the time), so I'm sure it was in the high 10's of millions of Capex that was completely wasted, and I'm sure at least a million in opex for the datacenter space and power and all that jazz for the 5 years. By the time they were noticed, they were EOL and "recycled" (aka sold off to used server resellers). I totally buy that Public is way more efficient then Private companies overall.