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[waldyrious]

They seem to be quite open, but lack an explicit general pledge to transparency and open operations. Some relevant info (emphasis mine):

From https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/07/salary-transparency:

Along with much of the tech community, we were impressed with Buffer’s boldness and leadership in salary transparency. So… We’ve created a salary and skills calculator for Stack Overflow’s engineering, design and product roles. This has been transparent internally for a while; now it’s transparent with you.

Those who know Stack Overflow know that we work hard to work in public. This is a continuation of that tradition.

We hope that moves like this will inspire other employers to greater transparency. (...) We believe that conventions can change. If more companies become open on salary, perhaps openness will become expected.

Our salary calculator doesn’t cover every role at Stack Overflow. It doesn’t include equity, and doesn’t address currencies other than USD. In the spirit of “default public”, we would rather share an incomplete system than not share at all.

From https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pay-developers/:

We want to offer (...) compensation that is fair, easily understood, transparent, and competitive.

(...)

Transparent reflects Stack Exchange’s core beliefs about running our business in the open, without secrets. It means that if a list of everyone’s salary suddenly appeared on Wikileaks, nobody would be surprised enough to be upset. Transparency is essential to insure fairness.

(...)

One important principle of Stack Exchange is that we do as much as we can publicly, and we try to leave public artifacts of all the work we do. In that spirit I've uploaded a complete copy of the current compensation plan so you can see what goes into compensation decisions at Stack Exchange. The only thing that is not public is the actual, final computation that determines each individual's paycheck, because we have to balance our own philosophy of openness against the individual developer's right to personal privacy.

[waldyrious]

Is anyone able to link to some permanent page (or section thereof) pledging their continued commitment to openness in similar language to the blog posts quoted above? Ideally something in one of the following pages:

• https://stackoverflow.com/company
• https://stackoverflow.com/company/work-here
• https://stackoverflow.com/company/management

or alternatively, can someone comment on whether the repositories listed at https://github.com/stackexchange indeed represent primary components of the company's products, or are accessory to their main business? I mean, every big company puts repositories on github these days, so that fact alone is not sufficient to extract conclusions.

Pinging those who've added their thumbs up to the comment above: @mbluemer, @rogersachan, @501st-alpha1