I don’t think it’s lack of choice. Any dev that can land a job at a VC backed start up could probably get a job at a dinosaur and sometimes a public tech compan

I don’t think it’s lack of choice. Any dev that can land a job at a VC backed start up could probably get a job at a dinosaur and sometimes a public tech company (i.e. FAANG+). I do think there’s an element of being misled, but less so than there used to be. We’ve now had twenty plus years of industry veterans grumbling on the internet about being screwed by equity. The info is out there. Sometimes people just want to roll the dice. It isn’t up to us to tell them they can’t want that.