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> true costs to the employer is typically double the perceived salary.

This is true, but my comment was an offhanded way to say that my "salary" (as in, the one on my contracts and the one I "see") is less than a month of Datadog for our number of hosts.

As for the rest of your comment, I wish it was true.

Developer salaries outside of the capitals is quite low in Europe, and even inside the capitals only go to "near double"

So, instead of 12x it becomes 6x developer costs per annum, which is a fair whack of money.

For me to justify spending "3-6" peoples worth of money it had better save "3-6" peoples worth of time.



> For me to justify spending "3-6" peoples worth of money it had better save "3-6" peoples worth of time.

Well, it does in my experience, especially if you have to handle 2000+ hosts, that's some serious infra there, need serious tooling.

May I ask which country is it?


I think another thing to keep in mind is that not necessarily hardware infrastructure size equals to profitability.

Some industries need a lot of hardware because they crunch a lot of data but they aren't software companies. Think Computer graphics rendering.

Paying a FTE salary for software is crazy for them. I would love to see a ration of developers/infrastructure per industry/company.


Sweden! :D




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