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I remember interviewing for an engineering gig at WildTangent at a time when my latest gig in the valley paid $120K plus 0.5% of the startup. WildTangent offer
by LogicFailsMe 11y ago
I remember interviewing for an engineering gig at WildTangent at a time when my latest gig in the valley paid $120K plus 0.5% of the startup.
WildTangent offered me $35K, less than I had made as a post-doc before leaving for industry.
#$%& you Alex...
- mimo777 11y agoAnd someone took that offer. And I bet he complained about the engineer he got at that price. Summarily launching into a tyrade about how important it is for non management to know their place--manager here--and just like his big brother Bill, didn't understand how non managers were making a manager's salary. Meanwhile, better paid engineers were making the job of many FLMs redundant by turning the employees they manage into scripts. Sounds like a good reason to pay a programmer like a manager, huh?
- beachstartup 11y agoyeah, i'm searching, digging deep for sympathy for someone naive enough to accept a 35k offer in a 100k+ environment, and i'm failing. the stress, the hours, the burnout, it's not for passion, it's for MONEY. you can go work on your passions in absolute leisure on a beach in southeast asia and never worry about money, but for the kids out there reading this, don't be tricked into thinking developing throwaway shitbox games for some asshole ex-microsoft millionaire is your passion. 35k is a very different kind of 'fuck you' money.
- LogicFailsMe 11y agoWhat? You think I accepted that offer? No no no, Instead, I went to a post-IPO company while the stock was down from the dotcom crash and did just fine when it recovered. In-between, Craig Venter offered me $45k, so glad I have standards. Everyone should have standards, no? Edit: +1 for "35K is a very different kind of @#$% you money."