Then you missed the biggest advantage of remote only: they can hire from any market.
It’s kinda funny everyone here arguing they should be paid the same regardless of location - but then complaining when the reality of that wish is not what they’d imagined.
yes, very silly that people desire equally well paid jobs regardless of location. how very silly of them.
But if you're from the US, remote could mean you're competing with prospective employees from all over the world, who will often be cheaper. So equal pay would be getting lowballed even more, I'd think?
It just doesn’t match the reality of market forces and it’s obvious.
Agreed. Underpaying engineers is not funny. Perhaps desirable for a cookie-cutter, third-tier, sweatshop that runs on labor as dumb as their management. But not desirable for profitable firms that require real talent.
As a a manager who's hired remote engineers across 3 countries, Gitlab's salaries are laughably low.
When I interviewed there in 2017, when I (temporarily) lived in Argentina, I was told the role would pay $60k USD in Argentina pesos. Assuming they made no adjustments, In today's USD, my pay would of been $52k/yr due to currency value loss. Even in 'any market' their pay didn't make any sense.
Evidently not. Can't hire in a market where your offers aren't competitive.
I think their remote pay is based on some kind of survey of local salaries? There's no tech jobs near me, so I guess they picked up the next-best-thing which was maybe like call centre workers or something? It was so low I wouldn't recommend to a new-grad, and this was for senior level. When you looked they also had these peculiar small islands of higher pay - so I guess it's really pay by what you can negotiate and they create an island for you if you're important enough?
What pay was that? Last I checked Gitlab's pay for a junior QA/SDET positions was about $15,000 $30,000 more then most local Canadian tech companies pay for senior/staff level.