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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by dangerlibrary on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:19PM (#22058726)
I'll do it for a cool 800k.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by throwawaypa123 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:33PM (#22058920)
I hope you are joking.

If someone said I'll do full-stack dev for 150k instead 400k at google, how would you take that question?

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by lucb1e on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:58PM (#22059207)
Sure, I'll do dev for 150k if they're fine with me remoting in from Germany. Currently earning a third of that as security consultant which is on average better paid than developer afaik. I could retire at 37 instead of 47.

You see, I'm fine donating money to a lot of places because I feel like I earn a lot (and I earn about 50k/year, not 150k and I never expect to earn 400k). The Internet Archive, Climeworks, OpenStreetMap, a local hackerspace, random sites or tools that I found useful, etc. But when I see that we need a hundred thousand average-sized donations to cover the cost of a single employee in a non-profit (what is even the definition of that word if not to not turn out profit to its owners?) then we're all just financing a pretty face instead of the product we love. One can argue all one wants about it being the market value or competitive offers or whatever, but if you are only in it for the money, Mozilla should not be the company for you. I'm not financing that. This is also why I don't donate to Wikipedia: the money doesn't actually go to Wikipedia the platform.

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by coldtea on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:42PM (#22059036)
If the position wasn't that challenging to begin with, like this one, I'd hire them!
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by hinkley on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:57PM (#22059754)
You know those meetings you hate? Quadruple them, add more customers and some unsavory financiers. Then sprinkle it with a bunch of business trips where you never get to see the city.

Think about that the next time you're thinking how much of a paycut you'd be willing to take if it meant you didn't have to talk to that guy every week.

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by coldtea on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:42AM (#22062707)
>You know those meetings you hate? Quadruple them, add more customers and some unsavory financiers. Then sprinkle it with a bunch of business trips where you never get to see the city.

That argument is about "how hard/bothersome" the work is. That's not how compensation is set, however.

I, and most developers I presume, also don't like sweeping streets or cleaning gas station toilets (much more than business trips and tons of customer meetings), but nobody would pay millions to some gas station toilet attendant.

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by hinkley on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:31PM (#22066738)
Grandparent said this is not a challenging position. That’s the comment I responded to.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by staticassertion on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:49AM (#22061998)
Or just let the company tank, take a raise, and fire 70 people to make up the difference?