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Those salaries are at or below market for high-level execs in Silicon Valley, especially considering they can't offer stock options. The people capable of manag
by tlb 4y ago
Those salaries are at or below market for high-level execs in Silicon Valley, especially considering they can't offer stock options. The people capable of managing the large software projects Wikimedia needs can make more at other tech companies.
- Ekaros 4y agoAnd why should Silicon Valley be any benchmark? Shouldn't they aim to some cheaper locale? Maybe Eastern Europe or Africa?
- tlb 4y agoWikimedia is based in Silicon Valley (San Francisco, really), so they're competing with other employers in the region for talent. The reason they shouldn't move their HQ somewhere cheap is the same reason Apple or Google shouldn't: there isn't the concentration of tech talent there.
- Ekaros 4y agoDo they need some special talent? Are they doing something that any solid group of engineers could not do?