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You are supposed to bring your device. If you don’t have one you can get a loan to buy one and pay it off by paycheque deductions. Once hired, you do get a “la
by loloquwowndueo 3y ago
You are supposed to bring your device. If you don’t have one you can get a loan to buy one and pay it off by paycheque deductions.
Once hired, you do get a “laptop refresh bonus” every 3 years, the problem being that it’s a bonus and so is subject to income tax, plus in some jurisdictions you can’t tax deduct computer purchases unless you are self-employed, so the purchasing power of the laptop refresh allowance is basically halved; i always ended up having to top up from my own money to get a decent laptop every 3 years.
Source: former Canonical employee.
- smetj 3y agoSpeechless tbh ...
- joncrane 3y agoDo they at least pay really really well so the laptop is just a tiny percentage of your annual compensation?
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoThe cost of a well-specced business laptop would be between 1% and 5% total pre-tax yearly compensation for engineers (variable depending on skills, location, seniority and the fact that I need to fudge the data a bit to avoid disclosing actual salaries which I obviously cannot do ;) ). It doesn’t feel tiny-tiny to me.