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I don’t think this is actually true for software and knowledge work companies. It is true for commodity labor. If you’re an expert in a special database system
by mlthoughts2018 7y ago
I don’t think this is actually true for software and knowledge work companies. It is true for commodity labor.
If you’re an expert in a special database system, a company is going to have to pay you what you ask, regardless of whether you’re interviewing for that company’s NY office or Boulder, CO office or working remote from Alaska.
Companies that don’t do this, whether hiring remote or hiring into different office locations, generally aren’t investing in employees but are looking to cut costs with location arbitrage, and get reputations for being bad places to work, lacking compensation or career growth.
Gitlab is welcome to just be another one of these crappy companies, but it seems like they aspire to be seen as some type of thought leader, which is at odds with a pay policy that is at best mediocre and at worst actively exploitative by design.
- ghaff 7y agoCompanies will bend or break a lot of rules for unique individuals that they want/need. But that doesn't apply to the vast majority of their employees including even fairly senior technical staff. Heck, plenty of the big tech employers are still generally resistant to remote work at all although they're slowly relenting in at least some cases. I stand by my assertion that very few large employers ignore location when it comes to salary offers.
- mlthoughts2018 7y ago> “I stand by my assertion that very few large employers ignore location when it comes to salary offers.” I agree with you but only because most large employers enforce commodity models of labor, and only far up the hierarchy do you get to unique employment requirements that break commoditization. This doesn’t fit Gitlab at all though. They are still in a phase where very few employment needs are commodity.