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0 pointsjahnu4mo ago0 comments

Even a single highly paid employee of a FAANG, many of whom frequent this very forum, could pay for a year without breaking the bank.

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codingdave4mo ago

100% true, but they shouldn't have to. If FAANG is using it, they should fund it. I don't want to work in a culture where the employees pay for the corporations' tools.

sph4mo ago

> I don't want to work in a culture where the employees pay for the corporations' tools.

Agreed. They call that 'open source' work (derogative)

jahnuOP4mo ago

I totally agree. I wasn't explicit enough I just wanted to point out the absurdity of the major corps not bothering to just automatically fund these things. I.e. it being such a small amount compared to salaries which presumably are low enough to maintain large profits.

reactordev4mo ago

Say this louder for the managers in the back!

I’m sick of having to pay for my own tools to do my job at your company. Either find a way to build using free tools or fork up the license for that Visual Studio Ultimate or IntelliJ Idea Ultimate license. Pay for your database vendor. Your corporate IdP. Why not $300/yr for a high value output employee?

ebiester4mo ago

We have a price for the total infrastructure spend per dev, and that includes things like AWS prices and all of the tooling like jira and github.

But you absolutely shouldn't have to pay for your own tools. (That said, blue collar people often have to, unlike us, and that's also awful.) But also, it's their productivity. If you are all laboring under the same constraints, it's their choice to make if they care about your productivity.

waltbosz4mo ago

You know, I always thought it odd when plumbers (etc. tradesmen) working full time for a company have to supply their own tools.

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calvinmorrison4mo ago

soon enough you'll start charging people for source code and distribution.

Maybe building the world on open source software was not good idea

throwaway8381124mo ago

They would rather downvote you than giving away $100

NetMageSCW4mo ago

Because it is factually wrong, which would have taken seconds to discover.

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