Will Manifold's next backend engineer's compensation be tied to counterfactual server costs?

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Server costs have been identified as a motivating factor in backend engineer hiring:

Clearly this is the skin-in-the-game approach.

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Resolves Yes if server costs are a direct input to compensation. No on a traditional compensation package (presumably involving some mix of cash, stock, stock options, Mana, benefits, etc.). N/A if Manifold goes under before hiring a backend engineer, or does not release enough info to resolve this market within a month of the hire.

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@EvanDaniel I'm going to extend this on your behalf, it seems like they are still pursuing this.

@EvanDaniel extend?

wait is the idea that they'd be hiring a backend engineer to try to cut down on $12k/mo server cost???

@KevinBurke No, the idea is that:

They've talked about hiring one anyway
They need to scale more
Server costs as of market creation were kinda silly for a thing of this scale
Making it scale more efficiently is the sort of thing a back end engineer would probably be working on
Weird compensation packages like this seem like the sort of thing Manifold might do.

What if server cost reduction involves either a 1-time 'bonus' or something similar?

@Eliza Anything written into the compensation package seems like fair game.

"Hey, great job reducing server costs this year, here's your bonus / promotion / raise" seems like a very traditional approach that's not in the spirit of this market.