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Their pay was abysmally low last time I applied. The company seems cool but the salaries as a senior were honestly kind of silly in this market.
by cglan 4y ago
Their pay was abysmally low last time I applied. The company seems cool but the salaries as a senior were honestly kind of silly in this market.
- postalrat 4y agoThen you missed the biggest advantage of remote only: they can hire from any market.
- bottled_poe 4y agoIt’s kinda funny everyone here arguing they should be paid the same regardless of location - but then complaining when the reality of that wish is not what they’d imagined.
- webdood90 4y agoyes, very silly that people desire equally well paid jobs regardless of location. how very silly of them.
- bottled_poe 4y agoIt just doesn’t match the reality of market forces and it’s obvious.
- Vinnl 4y agoBut if you're from the US, remote could mean you're competing with prospective employees from all over the world, who will often be cheaper. So equal pay would be getting lowballed even more, I'd think?
- hitekker 4y agoAgreed. Underpaying engineers is not funny. Perhaps desirable for a cookie-cutter, third-tier, sweatshop that runs on labor as dumb as their management. But not desirable for profitable firms that require real talent. As a a manager who's hired remote engineers across 3 countries, Gitlab's salaries are laughably low.
- itake 4y agoWhen I interviewed there in 2017, when I (temporarily) lived in Argentina, I was told the role would pay $60k USD in Argentina pesos. Assuming they made no adjustments, In today's USD, my pay would of been $52k/yr due to currency value loss. Even in 'any market' their pay didn't make any sense.
- rad_gruchalski 4y agoI’m very sorry to jump out with this but there is no such thing as „would of”: https://grammarist.com/usage/would-have-wouldve-or-would-of/ https://grammarist.com/usage/would-have-wouldve-or-would-of/.
- itake 4y ago:'(
- closeparen 4y agoEvidently not. Can't hire in a market where your offers aren't competitive.
- chrisseaton 4y agoI think their remote pay is based on some kind of survey of local salaries? There's no tech jobs near me, so I guess they picked up the next-best-thing which was maybe like call centre workers or something? It was so low I wouldn't recommend to a new-grad, and this was for senior level. When you looked they also had these peculiar small islands of higher pay - so I guess it's really pay by what you can negotiate and they create an island for you if you're important enough?
- somerandomqaguy 4y agoWhat pay was that? Last I checked Gitlab's pay for a junior QA/SDET positions was about $15,000 $30,000 more then most local Canadian tech companies pay for senior/staff level.