Re:What it was like working for Gitlab
by marcosdumay on Sunday February 11, 2024 @01:49PM
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> The only reason that's ever been explained to me is that the cost of competing for talent is higher in those areas than others.
You are looking for stability-based economics and wondering why your conclusions don't appear in reality. Well, it's because your economics are wrong.
They pay more there exactly because there is larger competition. And they hire there because that's where their money come from and where they started hiring before going global. If they reseted their hiring choices and had to do all of them again now with the current company, they would be better off hiring at cheaper places and not having anybody on the more expensive ones, of course. But the sheer absurdity of that conditional should be enough reason for you to see it won't happen.
You are looking for stability-based economics and wondering why your conclusions don't appear in reality. Well, it's because your economics are wrong.
They pay more there exactly because there is larger competition. And they hire there because that's where their money come from and where they started hiring before going global. If they reseted their hiring choices and had to do all of them again now with the current company, they would be better off hiring at cheaper places and not having anybody on the more expensive ones, of course. But the sheer absurdity of that conditional should be enough reason for you to see it won't happen.