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I don't work at a software company.

My current job consists mostly of listening to people whine in meetings about a broken system that my team is trying to maintain. No need to be awake for that.

I wish I could go into more detail about this project. But I'll just say I spent a few hours completely rewriting this project, and my version uses no proprietary libraries or protocols, has the ability to scale linearly, and was 200 lines of Perl. The real system is too slow for our users, impossible to scale, dependent on 5-year-old proprietary libraries, and is 100,000 (or so) lines of C#.

Now you know why we charge those $35 overdraft fees.

Some software companies I know are quite unable to measure results, let alone effort.

Some companies or managers keep track of LOC, bugs/loc, commits, or even screen/keyboard activity...

If it is not automated, the managers usually keep a mental note.

He gives 100% of what's left after his cut. In any case, unless there was a seriously marked decrease in performance I doubt most people would be able to detect the difference.