Discussing compensation helped her realize that she was being underpaid at a former job, and it helped her understand how much more people with her same position are being paid at companies like Apple and Google. Howerton added that tech workers’ obsession with including pay on Blind has done some good. If people don’t feel they make as much money as other people posting on Blind, they might post the peanuts emoji as their total compensation. People include their pay on posts covering a range of topics, from layoffs to dating in Seattle to deciding whether to switch companies. “You can't ask a question without telling somebody what you make,” Howerton added. “After a while, it just becomes this - and excuse my French - but it just becomes this dick-swinging contest.” Stefanie Howerton, an IT enterprise project manager at Quotient Technology, said constantly including total pay in posts, especially those that have nothing to do with money, starts to detract from other conversations. “So everybody has this underlying frustration that you're always not getting paid enough.” “You only get to selectively hear about high comps,” he said. Writing total pay on Blind is now as natural as writing an email signature, Das said.ĭas added that the discussion around compensation on Blind is flawed, because most of the people who actually share their pay on the platform are people who are proud of how much they make. Das said “TC or GTFO” highlights Silicon Valley’s obsession with pay and the need to show status through compensation. People would post about topics like work management and mental health, then throw their pay at the bottom of the post. Over time, he said Blind posts that included compensation began to have less to do with pay. Have a browse around the threads on hiring, flat sharing and "TC or GTFO". Want an unfiltered glimpse into Silicon Valley culture? Install Blind, the "Anonymous Professional Network". ![]() ![]() “A lot of the questions would be, ‘How much should I be getting paid?’ and ‘I get paid X at Amazon, but I heard people at my level get paid Y at Google,’” he said. But Blind became increasingly popular for tech workers to compare salaries. “Unless you say how much you make, you're not going to be taken seriously, or your seniority - or lack thereof - would never be known to the community,” said Deedy Das, the founding engineer at Glean, an enterprise search product.ĭas, who has previously worked at Facebook and Google, said he initially joined Blind around 2015 and noticed that users primarily used the platform to talk about HR issues and other workplace topics. But both the company and tech workers also agreed that “TC or GTFO” has evolved into a sign of the times in Silicon Valley: Compensation means notoriety, and those with higher pay can (and do) tout their financial status on the platform. Blind execs and some tech workers agreed that including total compensation on posts has promoted discussions about salary transparency across companies.
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