How tech companies make money and why it’s important
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Beautiful article. Some key takeaways:
- You get paid for work because it makes money. If your work doesn’t contribute to that, your position is inherently unstable
- If you want a stable position, you should try and figure out how your work connects to company profits, and strengthen that connection if possible
“Knowing how your knifes are used after they leave your factory”
What’s the point? As long as you are not making bad things on purpose you have no rights to control how your work is used. Now, what would US government say when I ask something like:
Hi, I’m about to work for John Doe in … I want to be sure he’s clean. Please give me all information about him, so I can properly decide!
The US government would most probably not share any information, but also they may contact John Doe asking what’s going up and why someone wants to check him, but that’s not all …
Do you meet your boss (or boss of your boss, or his boss or …) and contact him directly everything you’ve done while eating a coffee/tea? Of course not! In every company you are used to have a good contact only with the people you work with directly. Sometimes you may even not have a contact with your boss as there may be one or more people in between.
What’s the point? You don’t only have to check the top boss, but everyone between you and him and everyone your work with even if you don’t know them. Of course you have to work for regular time and when deadline is close you may even need to work overtime. For sure you have still lots of time to spend on checking if everyone is doing all the best for the world.
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Company obviously pays employees using their money, so what if someone would use that money in wrong way? Not related? How about a fake position i.e. someone in theory is doing something and in practice is doing something completely else? How can you verify every position in a big company?
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The company needs, the owner needs, the boss/manager needs and the team needs are completely different. For example you want your salary to be as big as possible, but the company prefer to pay as less as possible. In theory everyone works for the good of the company. In practice everyone is working for their own good. Therefore the company may have the best goals and is really making a good moves towards them, but the boss may use his position to achieve something completely different.
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You sell your experience and time - not your ideology. Fine, “trash for someone is a gold for someone else”, but ideology does make the project progress no matter how good or bad it is.
Nobody have resources and time needed to properly verify anyone they know, not even mentioning everyone they work with. As long as you don’t sell anything to suspicious people you shouldn’t need to care about that at all. It is not required by either written or moral law.