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SV (and to a slightly lesser extent NY) compensation. not worldwide. Having worked in SV for the past few years and now earning a european salary, its no wher
by compsciphd 6y ago
SV (and to a slightly lesser extent NY) compensation. not worldwide. Having worked in SV for the past few years and now earning a european salary, its no where near same ballpark.
and yes, I called it personnel cost vs salary, because I wasn't talking about the fully loaded cost.
if people are willing to work at startups in SV for $150-$180K salaries (with significant experience, and I had enough offers from my time in SV to get a good handle on the market) those same people if they wanted to work at mozilla would earn similar amounts. but these are higher end engineers earning the $180K at a startup. mozilla has a significant number (article I just read said about half) of its employees work remotely.
- jefftk 6y agoFor what it's worth the levels.fyi number is ~10% low for me, and I'm in Boston (US East Coast). I agree that outside the US comp is generally substantially lower. But given Mozilla's history and the people they would want to hire, I think it would be extremely difficult for them to move to a model where they primarily employ developers in cheaper countries.
- dblohm7 6y agoIndeed. Those developers would just be picked up by FAANG instead.