GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely

Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by lordfoom on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:11AM (#20498726)

Checked it out, and for my region their salary is barely competitive. Must say, I am disappointed by this approach from a company whose product I admire.

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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by trilila on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:29PM (#20499596)

Curious, which region is it?

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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by ThePadawan on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:36PM (#20500317)

I second the curiosity.

As a second data point, last time I checked (I want to say >18 months ago), compensation for my area (Switzerland, urban) was also very low (around the 20th percentile).

Now, it is closer to the median.

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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by trilila on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:01PM (#20500516)

I suppose at this stage we should also ask about the parameters - role, level, experience factor, country and area.

Looking at Switzerland on payscale.com, for ruby devs, gitlab's compensation seems above average. Might be looking at it the wrong way, or it might be that payscale.com is horribly wrong (wouldn't be surprised).

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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by ThePadawan on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:15PM (#20500658)

I used the Salarium [0] for base comparison (unfortunately, the actual calculator is only available in German/French/Italian).

As an example calculation, [1] are the statistics for a 30 y.o. university graduate in the Zurich area. At 13 monthly salaries, the median yearly base compensation works out as 110k to 150k CHF.

I'm assuming that at 30, that person might have around 5 years of work experience, so that would land them around 150k using the Gitlab calculator as well. So a bit above median for Swiss citizens, not so much above median for expats.

[0] https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/work-income/... [1] https://www.gate.bfs.admin.ch/salarium/public/index.html#/ca...

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Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely by trilila on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:46PM (#20500994)

Gotcha, makes sense.

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