This article is great; it really touched on all the things I immediately had in mind.
GitLabs compensation always felt extremely unfair to me. Their relocation calculator seems to be offline at the moment, but I remember SF having a factor of 2.x and Munich, which is a pretty expensive city in my country, having a factor of 0.3. Guess where the CEO lives.
Now, I can see why it makes economical sense for GitLab to do this, but it feels like they're telling you "we don't pay you because we can" right in the face. And if I have to move for an all-remote company the point is a bit moot. Let's hope that, with enough work-from-home in the market, it will fix itself.
Note (I am not the author): The words “You should” seem to have been auto-edited out of the title, as I copied and pasted directly into the title field from the blog post-which I think may give the post a different flavor to those browsing titles here.
Otherwise, no intentional editorializing done here. Just a brief caveat lector.
GitLabs compensation always felt extremely unfair to me. Their relocation calculator seems to be offline at the moment, but I remember SF having a factor of 2.x and Munich, which is a pretty expensive city in my country, having a factor of 0.3. Guess where the CEO lives.
Now, I can see why it makes economical sense for GitLab to do this, but it feels like they're telling you "we don't pay you because we can" right in the face. And if I have to move for an all-remote company the point is a bit moot. Let's hope that, with enough work-from-home in the market, it will fix itself.