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>the prizes are yet more corporate trash that don't need to exist

What I can't wrap my head around is that the top of the FAQ says that 1 Point has an estimated Dollar Equivalent of $769, and for 100 Points you get a t-shirt. As a "prize" in exchange for saving $76,900 I'd be expecting a car at the low-end...

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The $769 is referring to the estimated money saved by fixing bugs, rather than the trade in value of the points.

> For information on how points are awarded, see the Official Rules. Actual savings may vary.

Section 5 of the official rules document states approximate retail value of the prizes as; reInvent:$4000, Resin Trophy:$60, Hooded Sweatshirt:$27, tshirt:$12

https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/bugbust/AWS_BugBu...

That's exactly my point - Amazon have given that figure as their estimated savings, so either that's an insanely overinflated figure, or my point stands and if you save one of their clients several tens of thousands of dollars they'll give you a "prize" of a tshirt. They probably spent more money producing that video than they will pay for all the t-shirts they'll give out.

$77,000 for a t-shirt. $1,500,000 for a jacket. If you're saving somebody that much money who cares whether Amazon gives you a t-shirt? So either have prizes comensurate with the alleged savings involved or don't insult people with such low value prizes.

I think you misunderstand, you fix your own code not somebody else's. The BugBust is basically them advertising trying out their new CodeGuru analysis tools for free and sending some prizes to the ones that use it the most.

> trying out their new CodeGuru analysis tools for free

I for sure did not get that impression; where did you see they're offering free analysis?

The pricing/FAQ/Sign up page on the actual BugBust site linked all tell you. E.g. from the pricing tab:

> When you create your first AWS BugBust event, all costs incurred by the underlying usage of Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler are free of charge for 30 days per AWS account.

It might be that work worth the equivalent of $769 is required to get a point?

Right - they're saying that if the work of a point is worth $769 to a company, then that's the amount they should get paid as a developer.

Even if Amazon took a $269 cut from each point, I'd expect to get paid $50k for doing 100 points. But instead you yet a $12 t-shirt.

do you not fix bugs in the course of your job anyway? it’s your employer who should be paying you, amazon is just giving you a t shirt for using their software

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