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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019) by sequoia on Monday June 10, 2019 @05:44PM (#20151184)
Working at gitlab sounds amazing!

I have a question about your compensation calculator however: it seems employees are penalized for living in areas with lower cost-of-living. It looks like you pay someone in San Francisco almost 2x what you pay someone in Vancouver.

Why is this? Is the SF employee worth 2x the Canadian employee?

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019) by btasovac on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @01:57AM (#20153278)
This was often a hot topic on HackerNews, so we decided to write a blog post explaining why we pay local rates. Please find more information here [1].

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019) by mammamiacomme on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:46PM (#20196818)
This is something that always discouraged me from applying at your company, even though it sounds amazing. I make 150k at my current position working remotely, but based on your calculator I would only make 80k at Gitlab so almost half. What a joke.

You are missing on a lot of top talent due to this policy.

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