Server costs have been identified as a motivating factor in backend engineer hiring:
Clearly this is the skin-in-the-game approach.
Related:
/bohaska/will-manifold-get-a-new-backend-eng
/Austin/if-we-rewrite-our-backend-for-bette
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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@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.
@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.