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“Are those real numbers?!”
If I were to quibble with them I’d say the high ends for each range go muuuuch higher, even outside of places like the SFBA or NYC.
Putting a team of professionals on a problem costs what it costs. If you put 8 of them on something for a month...
If I were to quibble with them I’d say the high ends for each range go muuuuch higher, even outside of places like the SFBA or NYC.
Putting a team of professionals on a problem costs what it costs. If you put 8 of them on something for a month...
Note that while software engineers might estimate tasks in hours, software companies think in terms of team-sprints or team-quarters, and a team-quarter very plausibly costs about 3X what the median team member would quote their yearly compensation as. (8 members; 50% overhead)
“What’s the scope of something you’d expect would take a software team a quarter?”
There is a point in the life of a SaaS company where that is not yet an absurdly small amount of time to redesign the main dashboard for a user.
There is a point in the life of a SaaS company where that is not yet an absurdly small amount of time to redesign the main dashboard for a user.
