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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by hasty_pudding on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:06PM (#38959988)
Not all but a good chunk of my career has been digital plumbing whether I'm in a developer or an ops role.

And then theres engineers devoted to maintenance of the systems full-time.

Do ops/infra people fall under this?

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by tjconsult on Friday January 12, 2024 @01:09AM (#38964546)
No, DevOps/SRE salaries are considered COGS (cost of goods and services) so they’re accounted for the same as a cloud hosting bill–i.e. _not_ a capital investment
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