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Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

#51

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

I dislike it too, but the reality is they're in competition with local companies subject to local taxes, etc.

It does sound quite rigid in its implementation though.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

#52
post #20

Is there a way to generate an ebook for kindle? I would love to read it all

I use the "push to kindle" browser extension for online content, which seems to work fine for this page: https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org/send.php?url=https%3A%2...

The content is sent to the Kindle via the email service: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email

Depending on your Kindle settings, you may have to set the FROM address in the push-to-kindle page.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

#53
post #4

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

if we apply the same thinking to other industries, the prices of goods would skyrocket.

Why would they?

This issue here is, I think, that employees _at Gitlab_ aren't paid the same for the same work depending on where they live. The issue isn't that in general developers are paid depending on where they live.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

#54

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

> What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

This chain seems to have lots of excuses for not paying same salary for same value added, but I think it is about the same as the thing with sweat equity being somehow less valuable than cash equity.

Only real reason they f#ck you is because they can.

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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post #48

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

True. But it is not that trivial. Paying the same will be unfair to those living in an expensive location, finding the means of living while others retain more for the same amount of job.

Could you explain to me how it is unfair for people who choose to live in expensive places that people who don't choose that lifestyle get paid exactly the same amount for the same work?

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

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post #49

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

So you're saying everyone at Gitlab should have their wages slashed? I wonder how good their company would run if they couldn't afford employees in all major tech hubs.

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Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

#59

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

The regional coefficients they use to set salary are a real turn off. https://about.gitlab.com/salary/data.json

Apart from being a turn-off, the location factors are also off:

Poland - 33.3

Czech Republic - 37

Belarus - 41

Moldova - 41

Re: Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote

#60

I find it interesting how they achieve this and it also gives people in remote places the ability to work for such a company. What I don't agree with is the pay scale they use based on your location. If you have the same skills, you should be paid the same.

That is ok. When you start your own distributed company, you could fix that.
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