A lot of this "pay everyone the same, be transparent" sounds pro-employee but in practice its exactly the opposite. These companies that tend to write these bl

A lot of this "pay everyone the same, be transparent" sounds pro-employee but in practice its exactly the opposite. These companies that tend to write these blog posts on their fair and equitable compensation strategies always pay worse, usually significantly so, then market. It's easy to say "we pay everyone the same, we don't make geo-market adjustments", until you find out that the Bay Area company that reduces pay for remote team members actually pays that remote employee more than these companies that pay everyone the same. Spotify is a good example. Let's Whimsical post their compensation numbers and see how it compares to averages on levels.fyi . Guessing it's much lower. And they can talk about other things like WLB, that's fine, there's more to a job than. money. But it's annoying that companies feel the need to write blog posts about their forward-looking compensation strategies that at the end of the day is bluster that amounts to "we don't pay very well." Levels and Blind are what added transparency to tech compensation - not self-congratulating startup CEO blog posts.