Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself

Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by umvi on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:45AM (#23222207)

> 25 FTEs is an incredible achievement, and you should be very proud.

I know this is a stupid question, but I tried googling and it wasn't obvious... what does FTE stand for? "Full Time Equivalent?" Does that mean they are paying for 25 full time employees?

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by Closi on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:07AM (#23222477)

I usually take it to mean full time equivalent...

It usually means either 25 full time employees, or a number of part time and full time staff that equal the paid hours of 25 full time employees.

e.g. 50 part time employees that work half the typical working week would be 25 fte

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by ddevault on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:49AM (#23222254)

Full-time employee, I presume.

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by sgummaluri on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:04AM (#23222428)

Yes, FTE means Full Time Emoloyee

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by mkl on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:10PM (#23230648)

Not exactly, it's "Full Time Equivalent". If two employees are working half-time, together they make up 1 FTE, but not 1 full time employee (because there are two of them).

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by airstrike on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:26AM (#23223531)

It's full-time employee in this context, but if you ever need to search for an acronym definition again in the future try

https://www.acronymfinder.com/FTE.html

;-)

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Re:Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself by hckr_news on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:53PM (#23230869)

In my line of work, its full time engineers.

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