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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? oxide.computer/blog/oxides-...

Got some comments that support people don’t deserve $200k/year and all I can think of is youtu.be/qyIyT2qTtzY

I had a gig for a while where I had to spend one day a week in support. It was internal tech support only, but it was still way more stressful than my engineering duties. It was eventually handed over to a proper tech support team and they did a much better job of it than us engineers.

Could the tech support team have done our job? Absolutely not, but that doesn’t mean our job was “harder” or more “valuable.”

My cleaner cleans my house better and faster than me. One could argue she deserves a higher wage than me.

Related: In early days Silicon Valley lore, the practice of granting stock options to employees at all levels was a distinctive feature of SV startup culture. SV lost this value somewhere along the way. Now options are hoarded by execs.

is this true? i've gotten equity at every startup job i've ever taken

The number of options being handed out is way down. The average startup receptionist is not becoming a millionaire when their company exits. That being said, startup salaries are higher than they used to be. This is why I appreciate what Oxide is doing with their salaries.

goodness support folks definitely deserve all that compensation, they need nerves of steel and are the first line of defense against the End User

picturing end users as endermen now