Discussing Team Compensation and Possible Refinements

[antoviaque (Xavier Antoviaque)]

@braden Thank you for your detailed post on this! You have said it a lot better than I would have been able to. And to you @nizar for your understanding of the constraints at play here, as well as bringing up a difficult topic in the first place. The kind comments as well as the level of discussion and willingness to compromise on all sides on this thread made my day. Being able to really talk issues through, and the belief that we can resolve them together the way we do here is why I’m in this.

[toxinu (Geoffrey L.)]

@braden

• 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

It is easy to forget good things and the benefits we can have over time. Remind me to read your message every year just in case.

Thanks a lot, @braden and @antoviaque for taking a lot of time and for always doing your best for our company.

[pooja (Pooja Kulkarni)]

@antoviaque

Concretely, this means that if you have joined with a rate inferior to 35 euros/h, you’ll get a raise to a rate of 35 euros/h + the % raises that have been applied to your rate since you joined - for those who have joined after 2016, that’s 35*(1.1)^n - with ‘n’ being the number of full calendar years since you joined.

Oh wow! I was not expecting that. Thank you @antoviaque!

[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.

[gabriel (Gabriel D'Amours)]

@farhaan

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

What a great idea

[antoviaque (Xavier Antoviaque)]

+1 ! @braden since this is your post, do you want to do that pull request? :)

[braden (Braden MacDonald)]

Sure, will do soon as MNG-2515