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rr is awesome and is free and open and all that. How much better could this possibly be?
Well, if you have a Google L5 making ~365k [1] then it would need to make them ~2.2% more productive overall to be worth it when just considering direct pay. If we consider a Google L3 at ~187k then it would need to make them ~4.2% more productive overall. This, of course, ignores employee benefits and overhead which usually amount to ~100% extra costs over direct pay. So that is now ~1.1% and ~2.1%, respectively. An…
The major fail of such "just a 1% / cup of coffee" is that there is an infinite number of things you could pay for with the same potential productivity promise without any hard data on whether those are true, so just the fact the you can use a calculator and divide to get to a low % doesn't help you much if at all