[Wikimedia-l] compromise?

[Quim Gil]

On 01/04/2013 10:53 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 4 January 2013 18:17, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> And then again we would be comparing the salary I had in such company
>> after 5 years of (hopefully good) work, not the one I had at the beginning.
>
> It would be very unusual for an employer to disregard previous
> experience when setting a salary just because that experience wasn't
> with them...

Whatever the theoretical arguments are, the moment for any potential 
employee comes when you receive an offer from the WMF. I accept it and 
signed because I thought it was competitive and a great next step in my 
career.

If someone leaves the WMF some months after the core reason can't be the 
salary alone, since that was exactly the most clear and precise data 
such employee had when joining. imho the discussion about salaries and 
benefits are more relevant in the context of hiring and its 
difficulties, rather than employee retention.

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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil