Programmers' Day

Post by va1en0k » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 8:45 AM UTC

spiralganglion wrote: post #20

AngryParsley wrote: post #17

Degrees in computer science and computer engineering are in the top 10 for average earnings. We get to build all kinds of cool stuff used by people around the world. For many of us, programming is fun . And we get paid to do it! Every day is programmer's day.

Some interesting data I pulled together today: Approximate revenue-per-employee. Data from Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia. Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Facebook makes $1,500,000. Google makes $1,000,000. Microsoft makes $800,000. Sony makes $500,000. Kraft makes $400,000. Walmart makes $200,000. McDonalds makes $60,000. Now, if only there was a good source of users-per-engineer. I read that Facebook is somewhere…

Post by yesbabyyes » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 9:05 AM UTC

spiralganglion wrote: post #20

AngryParsley wrote: post #17

Degrees in computer science and computer engineering are in the top 10 for average earnings. We get to build all kinds of cool stuff used by people around the world. For many of us, programming is fun . And we get paid to do it! Every day is programmer's day.

Some interesting data I pulled together today: Approximate revenue-per-employee. Data from Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia. Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Facebook makes $1,500,000. Google makes $1,000,000. Microsoft makes $800,000. Sony makes $500,000. Kraft makes $400,000. Walmart makes $200,000. McDonalds makes $60,000. Now, if only there was a good source of users-per-engineer. I read that Facebook is somewhere…

Post by spiralganglion » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 9:15 AM UTC

yesbabyyes wrote: post #23

spiralganglion wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some interesting data I pulled together today: Approximate revenue-per-employee. Data from Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia. Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Facebook makes $1,500,000. Google makes $1,000,000. Microsoft makes $800,000. Sony makes $500,000. Kraft makes $400,000. Walmart makes $200,000. McDonalds makes $60,000. Now, if only there was a good source of users-per-engineer. I read that Facebook is somewhere…

Instagram has 3 engineers[1], 9 million users[2]: 3 million users per engineer. [1] (counting the co-founders as engineers) http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram [2] http://www.kullin.net/2011/09/instagram-now-has-9-million-us...

Post by mnemonicsloth » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 9:20 AM UTC

AngryParsley wrote: post #17

Degrees in computer science and computer engineering are in the top 10 for average earnings. We get to build all kinds of cool stuff used by people around the world. For many of us, programming is fun . And we get paid to do it! Every day is programmer's day.

   Don't give awards to comedians.

   Awards are for people who are looking for work,

   and we're not looking for work.

Post by va1en0k » Tue, Sep 13, 2011, 9:49 AM UTC

spiralganglion wrote: post #24

va1en0k wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you mean users-per-engineer. :-) Oh, seems that Facebook makes 1.2 dollars per user from your numbers

Thanks for the correction. As for Facebook's revenue-per-user based on revenue-per-employee and number of users, you'll need the number of employees (not just engineers). That's about 2000, which works out to $4 per user. This is exactly inline with what was documented in this nifty chart: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/chart... Amazon is kicking ass . Apple only makes $150 revenue per iOS use…