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Re:Why aren’t more companies remote-first? by imsofuture on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:57PM (#20107239)
It is competitive, but you don't see that competition because you flat-out tell people you won't pay them competitively. I would never consider Gitlab for that reason, it just doesn't make financial sense.

Money isn't everything, I've certainly taken a significant paycut to take a job I wanted and believed in. But I'd have to take a 50% paycut to work at Gitlab, so... no thanks. And worse yet, you'd openly pay a city dweller on my team twice as much to do the same work.

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Re:Why aren’t more companies remote-first? by literallycancer on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @05:27PM (#20109356)
They most likely pay competitive rates if you ask for them. They can't really lose anything by having a document with compensation rules for the gullible folk that fall for the "rules apply to everyone" spiel.
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