Discussing Team Compensation and Possible Refinements

[farhaan (Farhaan Bukhsh)]

@braden

Which again, is why OpenCraft does not compete for employees on the basis of salary. What OpenCraft does provide are things like:

• Flexible working hours and location (no commute!)
• A bullshit-free environment
• A drama-free environment
• No coworkers who are idiots
• Extremely competent coworkers
• Varied and interesting work (full stack+)
• The CEO is a developer himself and understands the work deeply
• The CEO and company are full committed to open source
• The CEO is the owner there are no investors to satisfy by slashing costs every quarter.
• Take whatever time off you want
• You are discouraged from working evenings and weekends, and you are encouraged to take regular holidays, even long ones
• You can use whatever hardware and software you like
• Paid travel to the conference and retreat in a different country every year
• Paid training
• You work on education software, something that’s unequivocally good for the world
• Your work is open source and builds a public portfolio
• You are paid to be involved in the Open edX community, which also builds your public reputation
• Minimal meetings

I don’t know if we should put this in the handbook, but it makes sense to do it.

Also, this conversation has some really good points and the way this discussion was handled so this is also worth mentioning in the handbook. Reading discussions like these helped me as a newcomer.

Thanks all for having such an open environment.