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It’s more recruiting and marketing tactic, the company is saying how fair they treat everyone by paying same salary.

It may work in short term, when everyone is part of product and tech team, and building product and valuation.

It will become a problem when junior people are paid same as senior level people that’s delivering more impact. And, when the company grows and have to hire support staff. Will they pay same salary to the receptionist?

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But why then even write an article on it, if your experiment is only valid for a very specific set of people, and the minute you start hiring more people or different skillsets or age groups or experience or pretty much anything else, it fails?

Like literally anyone can start a team of few people that are all paid the same. It's not really that hard, nor does it require that much attention. You only need to write about it, if it successfully stays that way for a long period of time or if it scales when parameters change.

It’s way to get noticed. It landed on front page of HN, so it worked somewhat.

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