Comment by _ugfj
2 years ago
I find this hypocritical. C executives of tech orgs with world class products often have eight figures compensation -- if not from salary then from stock options. I do not see any excess here. You need to pay to compete.
2 years ago
I find this hypocritical. C executives of tech orgs with world class products often have eight figures compensation -- if not from salary then from stock options. I do not see any excess here. You need to pay to compete.
> I do not see any excess here. You need to pay to compete.
What you mean with pay to compete? The goal of Signal to exist is to offer a privacy oriented chat app. Non-profit companies serve a propose, and people not aligned with that, shouldn't be working there in the first place. If you join a non-profit to make money, you are doing it wrong.
So all the programmers who work there should live on thin air? I agree that ideally the management should not be there for profit, but come on, the salaries are not even that crazy. I suspect FAANG key employees in that area easily earn multiples of that.
> Signal is competing with for profit companies for talented engineers and their
> talented leaders.
In Bay Area? I'm quite sure you get great people all around the World, or in USA, by much less.
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> So all the programmers who work there should live on thin air?
We are talking about C*, Engineer Manager, getting almost 700k/year. Not developers.
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Signal is competing with for profit companies for talented engineers and their talented leaders. You can't just cobble together something "good enough", this thing must be airtight given some of the dangerous situations it is used in.
And you get a world-class service that a lot of people can use for free and keeps their communication private in return. I'll happily keep donating for that.
I'm sure there are some costs that they could theoretically cut without consequence. Because the same holds for any other product I buy.
Indeed, I’m blown away these numbers are so low. I know multiple senior software engineers at FAANG companies who make more than the software engineers on that list, and they contribute roughly nothing to society. I have zero qualms with Signal executives and employees being paid at that level.