> I see why people resent it; I'm saying they're foolish to do so.

Okay, sure. I am also not a "I only want to put my head down and code" person either.

> And since you can't seriously mean me to believe performance is not evaluated at Oxide,

Not formally, no. Because there are no levels, no corresponding salary bands, there's no need to have a formal process, with all of the justification work that has to go in from the employee, and all of the reading and evaluating all of that stuff from management.

It is true that if you don't do your job, you'll be let go. However, that's a conversation that would happen between you and Bryan/Steve, not an annual or quarterly process with all of the paperwork and such that those formal processes demand.

Instead, we simply do our jobs, and get paid our salary.

It sounds like it isn't an environment for you, and that's okay.

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throwanem 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Instead, we simply do our jobs, and get paid our salary.

And some of "us" have an ownership stake, and some of "us" do not. But "we" like to talk about how everyone's working on a level playing field, anyway.

You're quite right. It isn't an environment for me.

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steveklabnik 3 days ago | parent [-]

Small nit, everyone has an ownership stake, it's that some are larger than others.

	▲	throwanem 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The clarification is welcome, inasmuch at least as it's good to know there are no missing grants. It doesn't really surprise to hear some are larger than others, which is invariably the case, usually by one or two orders of magnitude. I assume you're satisfied with yours. I wouldn't wish to be taken as saying no employee is ever more valuable to the business than another. That would also be absurd. What I don't understand is why all the circumlocution.