Comment by pelasaco
2 years ago
> 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.
That line of thought is exactly why FAAMG companies tried to lower salaries for CoL when they opened up to more remote roles. I don't know if thst was fair, but it wasn't something appreciated by many engineers during the pandemic.
It's also how and why long ago they tried to outsource a lot of engineering. They still do try. But that's not an easy transition either.
> 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.
Yes, so what's the problem?
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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.