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Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) by Swizec on Sunday March 21, 2021 @05:48PM (#26534413)
That’s why I said profits not revenue. Specifically to capture that 1 & 2 might be the same work :)

Just talking in terms of business impact puts you miles ahead of other candidates in many eng jobs. Especially for levels above junior. Very important to have engineers who (want to) understand why they do what they do.

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Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) by alisonkisk on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:12PM (#26535750)
Meanwhile the most wildly successful companies in history did the opposite of that and hired techies to make amazing stuff that printed money.
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Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) by Swizec on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:13AM (#26536788)
> hired techies to make amazing stuff that printed money.

you are agreeing with me

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