[sokoloff]

I don’t understand the motivation for yelp to express the policy that way. Just say “here’s the job, here’s the required skills, here’s the pay offered…”

If that pay attracts someone from the Bay Area, what’s the problem at all? If it doesn’t, what’s the problem vs the current policy?

[vineyardmike]

Yelp is a Bay Area company that used to be made up of Bay Area employees paying Bay Area rates. Then they started moving overseas to lower the cost of hires.

If you’re an American software engineer, inside or outside the Bay Area, that’s a worrying trend.

[sokoloff]

I understand their motivation. I was (and am) confused by the “official hiring policy” being expressed as above.