Yeah, I agree that a compensation package costing $X will be worth less than $X, and as an employee it totally makes sense to adjust for that.
But then I think separately it’s important that the package did actually cost $X, especially if the $X was supposed to include many of the things that determine your very basic quality of life, like food, toiletries, rent, basic transportation, medical care, etc. I also think it matters how far Chloe got into the hiring process of Nonlinear on the assumption that total compensation would be “equivalent to $X”, which to be clear, I don’t currently know the details off.
She was interviewed three times and was told about compensation during the second interview.
We only mentioned the “equivalent to” thing once in an offhand manner. Every single other communication that we have on record is just talking about all expenses paid plus a stipend. [Edit: it was actually two places we found. The other was on the job ad, saying “Compensation: $60,000 - $100,000″]
And the compensation did not actually cost $70,000, like we said in that conversation. It cost more!
We added up everything and shared it with her. She knew and didn’t tell Ben. Worse, she told Ben the opposite. She told Ben no accounting had been done for that and showed him her own accounting that she knew was incomplete and thus inaccurate.
Wait, that link goes to an archive page from well after Chloe was hired. When I look back to the screen captures from the period of time that Chloe would have seen, there are no specific numbers given for compensation (would link them myself, but I’m on mobile at the moment).
If the ad that Chloe saw said $60,000 - $100,000 in compensation in big bold letters at the top, then that seems like a bait and switch, but the archives from late 2021 list travel as the first benefit, which seems accurate to what the compensation package actually was.
Good catch! That’s quite weird—why would you update a job ad to include compensation information after closing applications?
Here are the versions I see:
2021-10-22, 2021-11-18, 2021-12-03: “Pay: amount dependent on role fit and employee needs”, “The application deadline is November 1st, 2021, midnight UK time”
Chloe worked there from January 2022 to July 2022.
So it looks to me like what we were looking at was a post-Chloe version, probably trying to hire her replacement, and the version Chloe would have seen didn’t have that information.
I think this one is a bit different: with the interview it reads reasonably clearly to me that you’re talking about a low amount of cash plus expenses, but the job ad doesn’t say anything about that. Was the transcribed interview (which I think I remember you saying was the second one?) the first time you raised that almost all the compensation would be via covering expenses?
Yeah, I agree that a compensation package costing $X will be worth less than $X, and as an employee it totally makes sense to adjust for that.
But then I think separately it’s important that the package did actually cost $X, especially if the $X was supposed to include many of the things that determine your very basic quality of life, like food, toiletries, rent, basic transportation, medical care, etc. I also think it matters how far Chloe got into the hiring process of Nonlinear on the assumption that total compensation would be “equivalent to $X”, which to be clear, I don’t currently know the details off.
She was interviewed three times and was told about compensation during the second interview.
We only mentioned the “equivalent to” thing once in an offhand manner. Every single other communication that we have on record is just talking about all expenses paid plus a stipend. [Edit: it was actually two places we found. The other was on the job ad, saying “Compensation: $60,000 - $100,000″]
And the compensation did not actually cost $70,000, like we said in that conversation. It cost more!
We added up everything and shared it with her. She knew and didn’t tell Ben. Worse, she told Ben the opposite. She told Ben no accounting had been done for that and showed him her own accounting that she knew was incomplete and thus inaccurate.
[EDIT: this was not the right job description; see below]
@Elizabeth brought up what looks like the job description for Chloe’s position, which has “Compensation: $60,000 - $100,000”. These seem to be in tension?
Wait, that link goes to an archive page from well after Chloe was hired. When I look back to the screen captures from the period of time that Chloe would have seen, there are no specific numbers given for compensation (would link them myself, but I’m on mobile at the moment).
If the ad that Chloe saw said $60,000 - $100,000 in compensation in big bold letters at the top, then that seems like a bait and switch, but the archives from late 2021 list travel as the first benefit, which seems accurate to what the compensation package actually was.
Good catch! That’s quite weird—why would you update a job ad to include compensation information after closing applications?
Here are the versions I see:
2021-10-22, 2021-11-18, 2021-12-03: “Pay: amount dependent on role fit and employee needs”, “The application deadline is November 1st, 2021, midnight UK time”
2022-07-03: “Application Deadline: July 21st”, “Target Start Date: September”, “Compensation: $60,000 - $100,000 / year”.
Ben’s post has:
So it looks to me like what we were looking at was a post-Chloe version, probably trying to hire her replacement, and the version Chloe would have seen didn’t have that information.
Ah, you’re right. So we said twice how much we estimated the compensation package to be worth. Will edit original comment to reflect that.
I’m sorry, as Daniel pointed out above this is from a later version of the job description, so this was all in the wrong direction.
I think this one is a bit different: with the interview it reads reasonably clearly to me that you’re talking about a low amount of cash plus expenses, but the job ad doesn’t say anything about that. Was the transcribed interview (which I think I remember you saying was the second one?) the first time you raised that almost all the compensation would be via covering expenses?