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0 pointskilotaras9y ago0 comments

You vastly underestimate situation in Eastern Europe. It's fairly easily for software engineer to move to Europe, so local companies still have to compete with that.

Anyway I've looked at my homecity in Ukraine and salaries proposed are around 80-90th percentile (~$50k for senior developer).

The thing is there's no reason for a person to hold onto Gitlab. Once you get some remote experience there're a lot of companies who provide EU/US salaries even if you happen to live in Eastern Europe.

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sdesol9y ago

> The thing is there's no reason for a person to hold onto Gitlab

This is the one area, I'm quite interested in seeing how things play out, from a human resources point of view. Since GitLab is so transparent, it'll be interesting to see, if they publish any information on employee turnover in the future. Or any mitigation strategies they may develop, to help retain high value employees.

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