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Does anyone have actual examples of organisations not treating engineering as a cost centre? Saying 'don't treat engineering as a cost centre' makes sense on paper, and I agree with the sentiment, but do companies actually ever list engineering as a profit centre?

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I have heard vague stories of AWS paying the key engineers of S3 and other foundational services a big amount (and I hate Amazon, so it pains me to say that).

But engineers are employees, and management views them as a cost center unless they have compensation that very clearly is dependent on their output.

Executives can demand compensation after the fact for "created value". Employees get a piece of paper that says "Thanks" in gold lettering.

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