• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      you’re ignoring the $2,000,000 in training costs from sr devs and mistakes.

      if you want to get serious about cost effectiveness, Jr devs should pay to work at a job.

      keep in mind, you fuck up a steak at a cooking job you’re out the cost of the meal + time.

      you fuck up a DB after a schema change you’re out thousands if not millions of dollars in outages, SLAs, and sales.

      still want to use revenue as a compensation performance metric?

      • KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk
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        10 hours ago

        keep in mind, you fuck up a steak at a cooking job you’re out the cost of the meal + time.

        What? Where?

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        10 hours ago

        To be fair, if a jr dev has enough acesss to screw a prod db from a schena update, then the issue is with the seniors and managers who did not set up the appropriate guard rails to prevent that.

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        Idk, I’ve worked with recent grads where their work likely did bring in > $100k in a year. Maybe only took a month to get up to speed. Commits from all devs should be reviewed, and all code should be tested before pushing to prod, so those catastrophic costs should rarely be a problem. We had a good relationship with professors at a local university, and they’d send us their top students. The students would work with us for a while before usually getting picked up by big tech.

        Pretty sure my work right out of college brought the company around $300k the first year (wrote the firmware for an electronic control board mostly by myself, which allowed the company to secure a large contract).