If it’s not competitive then don’t take the job. An engineer should be able to evaluate the difference between Toptal and the other offers they have, with the c

If it’s not competitive then don’t take the job. An engineer should be able to evaluate the difference between Toptal and the other offers they have, with the caveat that stock is hard to predict (the Silicon Valley mantra that “equity is worthless” might lead one to choose Toptal at $150K over another startup with $140K + stock). I highly doubt that anyone with a Netflix offer chose Toptal instead, if they did it was a blunder.