Is it worth it to work in a company where IT is an expense part of the budget?

Question

Career in IT

All my life I worked in companies where IT generates profit (outsourcing, product companies). Sometimes they are called to vacancies where IT is a support for the core business and is essentially an expense. It seems to me that such vacancies have a lot of disadvantages, for example, with a reduction, IT can easily go under the knife, bonuses are more likely to be paid to divisions that generate profit, etc.
Are there any benefits of such vacancies?

Answer 1

Is it worth it to work for a company?

If a company has been floating on the market for a long time, then it is worth it. Now is not 1970, so as not to know anything about the employer. You open reviews, smoke faq about the company, see how it behaved, behaves in the market, if everything suits you - welcome.

It seems to me that such vacancies have many disadvantages, for example, with a reduction, IT can easily go under the knife

Not a single company cuts IT staff at once, only in the event of a financial collapse, plus, as a rule, most IT people know their worth, and try to mow down the salary of an employee who delves into your software and hardware. In May, our salary was cut by 12% due to for covid everyone, except for the IT department, accounting and lawyers, draw conclusions. And as a rule, only sixes are reduced (enikeev, clumsy sisads, etc.), that is, whose employees can be easily replaced.
Bottom line: you just need not to be stupid, and work conscientiously, then even be afraid to sneeze in your direction.

Answer 2

no, in such companies they will save on the budget of it departments at the first opportunity. and fool all and sundry.
although for the treatment of god syndrome, which suffers from many "geniuses" from development, it is useful.

Answer 3

From experience, I’ll say that it’s much easier to work in such companies, since (for me personally) the posts of chiefs were just saddlers who after some time went to completely different departments. Let's say it was possible to install Astralinux on the server for a week, but you had to constantly swear at it and complain to those support :)

Answer 4

Worked both in those, and others as the administrator. It's just two different worlds. I won't be going back to expendables. On the other hand, in our time, IT is becoming "profitable" even for such historically non-IT businesses as trade, or, for example, taxis, you know.

Answer 5

I also note that it's not about the "expenditure item of the budget", but in principle the attitude towards IT. There are IT integrators, companies whose work is essentially IT, which manage to save on the IT budget. Of course, with all the consequences: low qualification of employees, high turnover, unprofessional management, and as a result, low-functional buggy software, faulty servers, and deadlines moving back for months (!). At the same time, such companies exist on the market, they work with the public sector, social institutions and commercial companies, I don’t want to think about how they get these contracts.

Answer 6

stands out from what comparisons?
compare turnovers
of salaries
and other factors .
Advantages should be looked at similarly in numbers
, where they are, where they are not,
for example, stupidly in salaries in banks, for example, they pay IT people around the world 20 thousand bucks in the middle, and in non-banks often less