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Also some of their customers are airgapped so if they’ll let you touch the machine that’ll make debugging a lot easier.
> some of their customers are airgapped I'm not doubting you, but where did you hear that? Wow, what kind of data center installation is air-gapped in 2025, except for ... maybe military industrial complex (maunuf + military) and spy agencies?
I like it a lot and their thoughtfulness about it but it's a little hollow when they're spending investor money. I'd like to see how this model evolves once they're off the vc teat: when there's a bottom line to answer to, does the dynamic shift? Everyone has an on-site chef when the money vc hose is on. Valve's flat structure was exciting because it wasn't 3 vc's in a coat larping as a business, it was an actual pro…
I imagine they had to introduce variable comp for sales because they weren’t able to hire even a single good enterprise sales rep for a flat $200k. It’s not a culture thing, it’s just the market rate for the role. If they paid a flat $500k they’d stand a better chance of avoiding variable comp.
If you actually considet all of the merchants, what's actually uncommon is to be anything other than 100% commission/margin based.
I understand that currently (and maybe because you are "only" 75 employees) it feels fair for everyone, or people are even feeling bad about it. Also it sets the bar high when hiring someone, I get that. But what if in a year or two a person is not so great anymore? Just by my own past work experience at 2-3 companies, there were always some colleagues that were definitely not good at their job (and this was pretty m…
I previously worked on distributed systems with lots of immutable state. Here I've learned tons about distributed systems that have lots of mutable state, and it's made me realize immutable state is easy mode.
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> The completion of a formal education is much more important than the institution From https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0003 -- which was top of mind since I started looking at the postings after reading the article. ;-)
It's not saying that doing so is a requirement, it's saying that, if you have a degree, the fact that you have one is more important than where it is from. I dropped out of school, had terrible grades, and ended up going back and finishing, but still got like a 2.something GPA. The subject of school never came up. When I review applicants, I don't rate them poorly if they didn't get a degree.
e: hopefully clearer, but tired and still commenting on the internet, so who knows. =)
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I can't speak for everyone at Oxide, but I'm practically certain that none of us wants to live in Sunnyvale.
Haha I can tell South Bay isn’t quite communist enough for the People’s Republic of Berkeley compensation model. :)
> One of the more incredible (and disturbingly frequent) objections I have heard is: "But is that what you’ll pay support folks?" I continue to find this question offensive, but I no longer find it surprising: the specific dismissal of support roles reveals a widespread and corrosive devaluation of those closest to customers. The easy way to "pay everyone the same amount" when you sorta don't want to is to outsource…
So in some sense its a decision of who is one the core of the team and who is in a different kind of relationship. And its fine to have those different kinds or relationships.
At some point the company might be big enough to have somebody doing or organizing cleaning full time, or work reception full time. By that time that person will be valued the same as everybody else.
This make the decision on what to make internal and external very meaningful. And it makes it so that person will be empowered to make the needed changes in order to do their job very well.
Lets see for how long they can keep going with this strategy.
This is such a toxic mentality. Yes sales always sits at the end of the value stream, but they aren’t selling thin air. Everyone in the company contributes to making that sale possible. The waiter gets a tip because “everything tasted amazing” but the chef gets stiffed because “he just made it”
As always, they have equality but some are more equal than others. And they are transparent, but obviously not on the parts where transparency would expose the inequality because that wouldn’t be popular.
> And, importantly: if/when those folks are making more than the rest of us, it’s because they’re selling a lot — a result that can be celebrated by everyone! This is such a toxic mentality. Yes sales always sits at the end of the value stream, but they aren’t selling thin air. Everyone in the company contributes to making that sale possible. The waiter gets a tip because “everything tasted amazing” but the chef gets…
It’s addictive, and, ultimately, far more toxic than what you describe.
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Almost certainly. You really think they are paying their cleaners and receptionist $200k?
At 75 headcount I very much doubt you need either of those on staff full-time? You can certainly make do without if your goal is to keep paying everyone the same. I think in a smaller company I was part of all support tasks were rolled into a single ‘office manager’ role. When it’s all combined like that 200k becomes easier to justify.