From what I've seen the usual points of critique were/are: * "This person does the exact same work, obviously they need to be paid 30% more than you because th

From what I've seen the usual points of critique were/are: * "This person does the exact same work, obviously they need to be paid 30% more than you because they could afford to move close to an expensive city before applying" doesn't sound exactly fair * "We'll value your work less financially if you move somewhere cheaper (not the other way around though)" isn't particularly great * The message(s) of "You can work from everywhere, people can move back to rural places and reverse demographic drain from there, you can be close to nature, ..." seem a bit hollow when paired with "oh, and if you actually do any of those great things we'll cut your salary" * At least when it was public, their salary calculator had some hilarious blind spots (one would hope they have a better process when it actually comes down to it) For the other perspective, they've written about why they do it: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation/#paying-local-rates https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation..., https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-ra...