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I don't know why people here think you have to quantify your revenue impact in your promo packet. This is literally not a thing, and any number you put in there will be ignored. No one up the engineering chain cares about dollar figures when it comes to evaluating ICs.

As for the Linus question, plenty of engineers with similar profiles have worked for Google, and they don't do so as junior developers their entire career. Junio Hamano, who has been maintaining Git while at Google for the last 15 years, is the perfect example. Sundar Pichai started his career working on products that had zero or negligible revenue (Chrome, ChromeOS, Google Drive) and is now the CEO.




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