Employees like this usually cost the company at least double their salary in support and benefits, so you’re probably talking about half that at most.
Along with that, there is probably a lot of R&D expenses as well.
Finally, Meta seems to be subsidizing the consumer hardware, so that’s probably hurting the bottom line even more.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 week ago
Compensation for engineers in the Bay area will average much higher than $200k, and that’s not counting benefits (medical, etc.). So cost to the company will be way higher than 200k/employee.
For a project that has hardware, there will be large expenses associated with that — custom silicon has huge setup costs, for example.
pulido@lemmings.world 1 week ago
It’d be much easier if we can see the real data that shows how much these employees cost the company.