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$600k/yr but there are two things of note

- we are woefully wasteful with resources. If it was worth the engineering time we could probably cut it down to $120k a year

- it’s not worth the engineering time because the business would rather the devs and infra prioritize feature work over cost cutting every quarter. Their philosophy is that if we can’t afford our bill the company’s got bigger issues.

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Isn't that differ nce enough for two engineers? They could certainly get more done in addition to the cost cutting. Seems like an easy case to the biz team.

This assumes that you can hire the two extra engineers. In all likelihood, their business is constrained by the speed that new people can be recruited, vetted, and onboarded. This means that even with infinite budget every engineer is a precious resource and should be allocated to higher-value projects.

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