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Wow, had no idea GitLab was close to an IPO. Is there a lesson about saturated markets and differentiation that can be learned from them? I'd be all ears
There’s probably room for another git* hosted company.
Would be interesting to know if they discriminate pay, according to where the person works from. Edit: Further down the page I saw: "Why they pay based on where team members live". That's petty.
That is similar to paying an employee more because they have children and need it more.
The first half of the article doesn't even name the business. The name of the business, GitLab, is hidden in the second half of the article. This is an example of a publication optimizing blindly for Google Search Optimization where they want to improve "Time on site" and other data by keeping the readers on the page as long as possible. It's frustrating. Google's algorithm needs to be updated to make it smarter othe…
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-ep...
“The article on the Forbes website was attributed to Drew Hendricks, a contributing writer. As The Times revealed in an article last week, he was not the author of the piece. Instead, it was delivered to him by a public relations firm, and he said he was paid $600 to attach his byline and post it at Forbes.com.”
That being said, Google absolutely encourages this behavior because Forbes is very often at the top of search results.
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That is similar to paying an employee more because they have children and need it more.
Not unless there's an incredibly strong link between having children and having strong alternative employment prospects. Which I don't have data on but doubt, and if I had to take a guess would assume actually works the other way. That the childless have more options.
I do not live in a low CoL area because I'm from here and never left, nor did I move here to save money. I moved here because I was able to keep a high paying career, and live somewhere I wanted to live.
Gitlab is flat-out non-competitive.
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And yet, a lot of remote companies pay differently based on location. I'm also not quite sure why the choice of location should be factored in but family planning not. Paying the same, regardless of location, would maybe motivate some people to move away from crowded areas, one of the big chances remote work offers.
I think the standard argument is not that they're paying according to need, they're paying according to market norms. Thing is, in high cost of living areas the living cost is extremely pegged to job opportunities, it's almost tautological. Where there are more job opportunities, you have to pay people more to stop them working for competitors. A confounding factor is a hypothesised (not sure if backed by data) trend…
Spoiler: that only works hiring those who are ignorant of the remote employment market.
I think remote roles are becoming a lot more accepted in tech. No time wasted on the commute, and companies can save costs of office spaces, etc. I'm so optimistic about remote working for developers, it's even been a key feature in a job matching platform I've been working on: https://www.rocketship.dev/
Would be interesting to know if they discriminate pay, according to where the person works from. Edit: Further down the page I saw: "Why they pay based on where team members live". That's petty.
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Automattic is the name of the company. WordPress is the name of the product. Anyway, what I like about GitLab and Automattic is they are agnostic-timezone remote company. You can live in any timezone to work in GitLab or Automattic. Some remote companies only accept certain timezones.
What's most interesting to me is remote + scale. There are many small remote companies that don't try to scale, as they prioritise just having a nice product that solves 1 relatively simple task very well, while having a comfortable life style for the employees. But so far there's no remote-first company on the stock market.
Would be interesting to know if they discriminate pay, according to where the person works from. Edit: Further down the page I saw: "Why they pay based on where team members live". That's petty.
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Not unless there's an incredibly strong link between having children and having strong alternative employment prospects. Which I don't have data on but doubt, and if I had to take a guess would assume actually works the other way. That the childless have more options.
This is a bad argument, because there are many other remote employers. I do not live in a low CoL area because I'm from here and never left, nor did I move here to save money. I moved here because I was able to keep a high paying career, and live somewhere I wanted to live. Gitlab is flat-out non-competitive.