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People seriously overestimate the value companies place on open source work and things that do not effect their bottom line. Where are all these altruistic companies paying six figures to do whatever you want???
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That was my assumption too. Donating 400k is an awesome gesture, but that’s only 18 months max of company expense for a single fulltime Bay Area senior engineer.
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We’re not in the Bay Area though. When you look at the German market (which we operate in) instead then that looks very different. And we’re still committed to continue investing so the number will likely continue to grow.
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It’s still not a lot of money when talking about full time employees, even considering London, which was the main point of my tweet. The pool of companies willing to fund full time is very low because there’s ~no commercial value and so limited competition and poor job mobility.
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