[gsylvie]

People rarely get promoted for saving money.

[williadc]

Finance people do.

[gsylvie]

Good point. I meant software engineers rarely get promoted for saving money.

[justicezyx]

This does not apply in this post though.

There are thousands of SWEs working on systems to save money for Google.

[qu1j0t3]

They sure do at Amazon. Frugality is one of the explicit leadership principles and initiatives often have cost saving as a primary goal and always as a secondary goal.