3 ms·
x40hrs/week * 50 weeks = $180k Congrats, now you’re paying an engineer’s salary to make your engineer at best 20% more productive. Better to hire another engi
by kennywinker 4mo ago
x40hrs/week * 50 weeks = $180k
Congrats, now you’re paying an engineer’s salary to make your engineer at best 20% more productive.
Better to hire another engineer, or two jrs, and build up your in house talent.
- cicko 4mo agoexcept this is way more than an engineering salary. At least in Europe.
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- kennywinker 4mo agoI’m sure there are engineers making $180k usd / year in the eu. Maybe it’s unusual, but hey, now you can cancel your claude subscription and hire a really good engineer
- kopirgan 4mo agoOnly you get things done lost faster and don't need to pay entire years salary?
- kennywinker 4mo agoHow so? If you’re doing a one-off project, sure. But if you’re coding like this full time, you’re paying the year’s salary anyway. And faster? Not so sure about that. Sure they can write code faster, but writing code is a small part of building something.
- kopirgan 4mo agoThat's a good point.. Writing code vs building