Comment by alephnerd
10 hours ago
Look at their salaries. Most are earning significantly less than what they would have earned in the for-profit sector for the same role in a significantly more stressful job.
Compensation only started catching up in 2021-22 and even then is roughly comparable to what mid-career ICs now earn in the Bay, NYC, and Seattle.
Salary aside, I'd still have assumed Wikimedia would be able to find a CTO who wouldn't jump ship the next year.
Either they're really bad at picking, or the job is really bad.
> Either they're really bad at picking, or the job is really bad
Def the latter in the sense that it is a very high stress job with weak compensation and high risk of being targeted.