Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by msteffen on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:34AM
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Yeah. Google makes like a million dollars per engineer, so it's either "make less money on this engineer than you'd like" or "don't hire this engineer and make nothing". It would be stupid if they were doing it for no reason, but competition is higher for engineers in SF.
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by SpelingBeeChamp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:26AM
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Got a link for your ‘Google earnings per engineer’ $1 million figure?
Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by maccard on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:00AM
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Not OP but the $1m figure doesn't really matter. Their point is google makes $x per engineer, you can make $x - (large number) or $0. Whether it's $1m or $10m, it doesn't change the fact.
Google made $65 billion in 2014[0], and had ~20k engineers[1], which puts the number per engineer at $3.5 million. [0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/reve... [1]https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-does-Googl...