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Engineers are hired to create business value rather than to program things, and the only goals are adding revenue and cutting costs.

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  1. Patrick McKenzie

    Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11

    The person who has decided to bring on one more engineer is not doing it because they love having a geek around the room, they are doing it because adding the geek allows them to complete a project (or projects) which will add revenue or decrease costs.

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