1. Does the buffer team work remotely?
2. What's your backend written in?
Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer
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#12Wow...the engineering salaries are significantly lower than I would've expected for a well known startup in the Bay Area...at least compared to the perceived range for such things.
Note: a less cynical take is this: GodDAMN buffer employees must be happy working there if they tolerated transparency to this level...which, really, is the best win-win for all kinds of transparency scenarios.
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#14It’s one thing to have a transparent salary policy, it’s a whole another world to publicly blog about people’s salary with a link to their Twitter account. I hope all employees agreed to have their salary published on the buffer blog. Kudos to them for trying something different.
I never understood the hypocrisy about hiding your salary.
Seems to be more of an American thing than a European thing. Not everyone will hide their salary here. Some will some won't.
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#16When the market shifts, or for tactical reasons you have to pay more to recruit someone, you instantly have a problem.
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I never understood the hypocrisy about hiding your salary.
Seems to be more of an American thing than a European thing. Not everyone will hide their salary here. Some will some won't.
I never saw someone disclose his/her salary in France. There seems to be an expectation that doing so would produce jealousy and bitterness. So it's not only an American thing.
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#18I have a feeling you will regret this soon. There are certain benefits in having a firm salary structure sponsored by a transparent system, but the loss of flexibility will hurt in ways you haven't experienced. Also, letting everyone know what their peers make can cause disgruntled employees.
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#19Very humbling that no one at Buffer would call themselves a "Master", indeed many would probably but Joel at that level but he sits there on a 1.2x multiplier.
I once had a conversation with an old hat who said "If you call yourself a python master you better be fucking Guido."
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Yeah, I think it would have been more than enough to simply explain the formula and provide some anonymized examples. On another note, I am quite surprised at how underpaid some of their positions seem. Senior iOS engineer barely cracking 100k in a very expensive market...
Yeah, that's pretty ballsy. Seems like they're exposing themselves to unnecessary poaching risk. And what do they do in that situation? What if someone has a competing offer and they want to keep them around? Offer a bonus?
Nope, you talk about transparency, fairness, etc. If you're sticking to that salary structure you're not going to win on price in this market.
Warm fuzzies are important to a lot of people, look at how non-profits retain people. Also, there are a lot of people who don't know how to negotiate that would probably benefit from something like this.
I know a few devs who stick around at places because they like the people, etc, despite having had multiple offers for more money. Not my style, but it takes all sorts.