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Feels Like Saving Money	Actually Saving Money
Encouraging everyone to work late	Promoting work-life balance to avoid burnout and low morale
Keeping compensation as low as possible	Compensating employees such that they choose to stay, reducing churn
Using the free version of Slack forever	Paying for Slack so that you have a valuable and searchable knowledge base
Building up your engineering team to focus on product development	Building up DevOps and QA orgs within engineering to deliver stable product iterations, faster
Compiling code on local machines	Developing a build farm to shrink compile times
Buying a few cheap servers to run your tools and services	Using a public cloud to provide extensible managed compute and storage
Infrequent team lunches or outings	Frequent team building experiences that contribute to a strong culture
Having an engineer build, package, test, and ship your code	Automating code testing and delivery