3 ms·
I am not competing on price. I compete o quality. In your analogy, I am someone who the company needs to “take a chance”, the company is risking hiring a worse
by soneca 4y ago
I am not competing on price. I compete o quality. In your analogy, I am someone who the company needs to “take a chance”, the company is risking hiring a worse employee because I don’t live in SF or the US. That’s not how I see it.
The pandemic made a lot of people realize they can hire remotely and be fine. Why should I share the surplus with the company? I am a good developer and I will negotiate to get a better pay. Why wouldn’t I?
- lmm 4y ago> Why should I share the surplus with the company? The whole premise of being employed is that you make more money for the company than they're paying you. > I am a good developer and I will negotiate to get a better pay. Why wouldn’t I? So why would you rule out companies that pay location-adjusted salaries? If they're the best offer on the table then you're shooting yourself in the foot.
- soneca 4y agoI don’t understand your last comment. I rule out precisely because they never were the best offer in the table for me. There are companies that do not pay location-adjusted salaries that pay better. I was able to get a job in those the last two times I switched jobs.
- lmm 4y agoA worse offer is a worse offer, a better offer is a better offer. If Gitlab isn't making competitive offers then of course take a better offer elsewhere, but what matters is the bottom line, not the method they used to come up with it.