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Equally important is the reverse question: if a prospective employee doesn't demand this information, should I hire him?
by johnrob 17y ago
Equally important is the reverse question: if a prospective employee doesn't demand this information, should I hire him?
- tptacek 17y agoThe answer to this question has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with how well anybody but a salesperson will do in your company.
- Flemlord 17y agoYou'd be surprised how many people don't ask questions about their stock options. In my experience, at the senior management level only 20% or so really ask the right kind of questions. Below that, it's <5%. In fact, the people who asked the right kind of questions did not end up being top performers. I actually think there may be an inverse relationship between stock-option queries/demands and performance. Or maybe I'm disproportionately remembering the more demanding employees who didn't perform well.
- tsuraan 17y agoYou would honestly rate a programmer based on his knowledge of business finances? That seems more than a little mad.
- johnrob 17y agoIt just seems incredibly irrational to accept not knowing very important details. In reality, I'm sure many smart people ignore these details. It amazes me that they accept "you can have a piece of the pie" without asking "how much of the pie?".
- quickpost 17y agoI agree - which is exactly why I'm asking this community for feedback before I make this demand first thing Monday morning. :)
- tsuraan 17y agoI guess that's a valid point of view. For me, I have an interesting job with some hypothetical equity. I don't know its supposed value, and quite possibly never will. It's not something I stress about, but if it someday becomes valuable, it will be an unexpected surprise. I'd hate to think of not getting a job based off that point of view :) Of course, I've always seen stocks as a funny form of gambling, so that might skew my views a bit.