When did I coin the term Billion-eer? That is easy. It was on Jun 29, 2021. As soon as I thought of it, I registered a domain. I really wanted billioneer.com but that was too expensive. Like $2000. Not enough value for money. So, I chose the hyphenated version.
Value for money is the key concept. Software engineering is really easy. Anyone can code anything with enough time and help. Choosing the right problems to solve is the far more important skill.
Success is a habit. Success of a software project is a habit. You want a team that values the success of the project foremost. How do you find one? Especially when the software engineers’ resumes are full of details?
If there is one key detail that really matters to a hiring manager, it would be a history of having worked on a high impact project. That is why you hear the advice from multiple sources to highlight numbers on your resume.
If everyone is flooding their resume with numbers, what exactly is the hiring manager looking in those numbers? What is a good number?
1 Billion.
1 Billion can be arrived at many ways:
- Maintenance Project: $100 million revenue with 10% engineering effort.
- New Initiative: Generates $100 million over next 5 years – with 10% engineering effort.
- Optimization: Saves $100 million over next 5 years – with 10% engineering effort.
What do you call such an engineer? A “Billion” engineer.
A Billion-eer
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