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Maybe at super early stage startups where you get at least one percent of the company (if not more). At older startups you should see base salaries that are rea
by fennecfoxen 6y ago
Maybe at super early stage startups where you get at least one percent of the company (if not more). At older startups you should see base salaries that are reasonably competitive with public company salaries: not everyone makes Google money, but you shouldn’t have much trouble getting what you’re worth elsewhere until you cross $200k or so.
The big difference is that the publicly traded companies can pay RSUs worth money NOW.
- swiftcoder 6y agoAt this moment in time, $200k total comp at a Bay Area FAANG is roughly... an engineer 1-2 year out of university. Given that so many of the hot startups are in the Bay, I'd say only fresh college grads are looking at remotely similar comp between the two. Everyone else is playing the options lottery.