Great place to work - Senior Technical Writer - Team Lead ROSS VIDEO Employee Review

Thanks for the 5 star rating and I’m glad you enjoy the work from flexibility we offer. On your cons, every upside has a downside. We make some wildly different products ranging from robotics, to manufactured hardware, to software, to cloud products. The development processes for each of these from a safety and efficiency point of view are different so we give each team a lot of flexibility on how to get things done, for team members that span teams, this can admittedly be a challenge, but the idea is that overall, we’re more effective. Regarding salary transparency, we’ve recently completed a two year project where HR has looked into every job and title in the company and compared them across the company. They created a sophisticated matrix based on education, rarity of skills, job authority, responsibility and autonomy, and many other factors. We then engaged third parties to analyze pay ranges in the geographic region where the role competes. We then took all employee salaries and stack ranked them and analyzed them for anomalies. After that, we had to justify any back stories for why a salary was unexpectedly high or low inside of an expected range and many employees received raises as a result. The only thing we decided not to do was effectively put everyone’s salaries on the wall for everyone to see as we felt that could move the conversation from “how can we serve the customer better?” to “why am I in the lower half of the range?”. Note that unless we pay everyone the same regardless of performance, by definition half of the employees will always be in the bottom half of the range. Even still, some people wanted to see where they stood anyway and what everyone else in the company made and that’s something we decided not to do for now. In the end, we opted for “pay process transparency” with a rigorous study on ensuring fairness rather than complete “pay transparency”. - David Ross