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Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
How tech companies make money and why it's important
I won’t quote the tweets, but I regularly see stories like “I convinced my idiot bosses to finally let me do only tech debt work, and would you believe they fired me after a few months?” Or “I’ve been busting my ass on this underfunded project and I still got a bad performance review”. Profit Centers are the part of an organization that bring in the bacon: partners at law firms, sales at enterprise software companies, “masters of the universe” on Wall Street, etc etc. I don’t think you necessarily have to work in profit centers (in most tech companies, that would mean abandoning your engineering title and role).
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