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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by e40 on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:52PM (#24087992)
Not my experience. 4 years ago I offered 3 people in the US a job. All declined it. They were looking north of $175k. All were in very low cost of living places. They would live like a king or queen on that salary there. I was offering $125k. It was a very quick conversation, too. Once they knew that, they bailed.
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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by User23 on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:34PM (#24088728)
You should compensate employees based on the value their work provides you, not based on the particulars of their personal life. An engineer's frugality is not an excuse to lowball him or her.
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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by cjbprime on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:01PM (#24088581)
Not sure exactly how to ask this, but since $125k is well above US market rate in low cost of living areas: have you considered the possibility that they asked for more because other aspects of the work seemed extremely unattractive?
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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by e40 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:01PM (#24095600)
2 of the 3 were ready to accept the job. Salary was the only issue. The 3rd, I'm not sure of. The job was writing Lisp code, so you can gauge the unattractiveness of that yourself. (It's what they were looking for, they said.)
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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by sushshshsh on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:39PM (#24088231)
Hire me instead :) You just didn't poll the queue enough.
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