Using that same job calculator that you used (for the developer position) near the bottom of this page: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/developer/, the rates are way way off from my area.

They are out of their minds if they think the top rate for a Senior engineer in Salt Lake City with above average experience is $78k. Most other areas also seem pretty low from what I've looked into but I suppose a few areas could be outliers in their calculator.

Their docs on the calculator are here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

It's a bit strange that they cut or raise your pay by that calculator when you move cities.

Compensation is more than just salary

Massive thread on this yesterday (with multiple appearances from GitLab staffers) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13608463 .

The tl;dr is that they start out with a kind of OK but not very interesting rate for New York City. Then they punish residents of other cities based on how much cheaper the rent in their city is than the rent in NYC.

For example, if the cost of rent in your city is 35% the cost of rent in NYC (as determined by the third-party rent index they reference), your salary multiplier will be 0.35, meaning GitLab will offer someone in NYC 130k for that job, but they'll only offer you 45.5k. The experience modifiers range from -20% to +20% so they're not going to help much.

As NYC is literally one of the top five most expensive real estate markets on the planet, most non-NYC cities get totally pummeled by GitLab's salary calculator, and the result is what we see here: an enterprise with $30M in funding that can't figure out how to make backups.

Maxed out everything in my city (Cleveland) before I was able to reach a salary I'd consider, and I'm hardly a Senior engineer.

I wouldn't call their salary range a spit in the face, but its probably around $20k below market rates where I live. Benefits are competitive in my opinion.

Well, it's hard to judge the algorithm. Some numbers are decent, if you are given "lead with lots of experience".

1) It's hard to tell how they assign rank. If they accept any programmer that shows up, the rates are fine. If they have Google level interviews to filter for only Google level candidates, who will join at "junior" level, it's terrible.

2) The numbers are in dollars, thus they are utterly meaningless. It's not a job, it's gambling with the exchange rate and the exchange fees.