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A $1,500 bonus would be huge to thousands of people working at LinkedIn. For every highly paid software engineer there are dozens of people working in HR / Acco

A $1,500 bonus would be huge to thousands of people working at LinkedIn. For every highly paid software engineer there are dozens of people working in HR / Accounting / Administration / Facilities / Sales earning a fraction of the pay that developers are earning -- with largely the same costs of living.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
Instead of a symbolic gesture, perhaps let your employees work remote and save a real amount of money (compared to token income)? That'd be far bigger news.
- danso 11y ago
  And it's far bigger work, with far bigger implications and potential unintended consequences. Telling America to just get off of its collective fat asses and walk around more than once in awhile would do more than an infusion into Medicare, but Medicare money isn't nothing for the people who need it. Ideally, the CEO could/would do more. But just passing it off as a symbolic gesture raises the question: well, if it's so symbolic -- and thus, of no real sacrifice to the CEO, then why don't all the other rich (and far richer) CEOs do it, such that this CEO's offering doesn't make news?
eru 11y ago
Are you sure there employment ratio are so skewed away from developers?
- mikeyouse 11y ago
  Dozens may be a bit of an exaggeration, but they give a big picture breakdown of their employment ratios in their annual report; As of December 31, 2014, we had 6,897 employees, consisting of 2,838 employees in engineering, product development and customer operations, 2,989 employees in sales and marketing, and 1,070 employees in general and administrative functions. So even broadly, 60% of the company is definitely non-engineering. From a quick glance at their 10k, it looks like about 1,700 people are in the product development group, so at minimum 75% of the company is non-engineering. Whether it's 1/5 engineers or somewhere closer to 1/10, it's hard to say but it takes a lot of people to run a company, and the majority don't make 'engineer' salaries.
  - eru 11y ago
    Thanks for doing the legwork to my throwaway remark!

toomuchtodo 11y ago

Instead of a symbolic gesture, perhaps let your employees work remote and save a real amount of money (compared to token income)? That'd be far bigger news.

danso 11y ago
And it's far bigger work, with far bigger implications and potential unintended consequences. Telling America to just get off of its collective fat asses and walk around more than once in awhile would do more than an infusion into Medicare, but Medicare money isn't nothing for the people who need it. Ideally, the CEO could/would do more. But just passing it off as a symbolic gesture raises the question: well, if it's so symbolic -- and thus, of no real sacrifice to the CEO, then why don't all the other rich (and far richer) CEOs do it, such that this CEO's offering doesn't make news?

eru 11y ago

Are you sure there employment ratio are so skewed away from developers?

mikeyouse 11y ago
Dozens may be a bit of an exaggeration, but they give a big picture breakdown of their employment ratios in their annual report; As of December 31, 2014, we had 6,897 employees, consisting of 2,838 employees in engineering, product development and customer operations, 2,989 employees in sales and marketing, and 1,070 employees in general and administrative functions. So even broadly, 60% of the company is definitely non-engineering. From a quick glance at their 10k, it looks like about 1,700 people are in the product development group, so at minimum 75% of the company is non-engineering. Whether it's 1/5 engineers or somewhere closer to 1/10, it's hard to say but it takes a lot of people to run a company, and the majority don't make 'engineer' salaries.
- eru 11y ago
  Thanks for doing the legwork to my throwaway remark!