lol wtf.. you make a million a year.. i have worked at startups my whole career and the best one, that succeeded big and turned my options into valuable stock y

lol wtf.. you make a million a year.. i have worked at startups my whole career and the best one, that succeeded big and turned my options into valuable stock years later, the annual comp was like $350k. No, you're probably never ever going to get even close to a $1M/year at a startup. If money is your main motivation, a startup will probably never make sense. I do agree early engineers get pretty terrible deals w.r.t equity compared to founders or investors, but that's to be expected IMO. A startup does not have the structure in place to plug in an engineer and crank out tens of millions of extra revenue. They typically don't have extremely complex technical problems that need a highly specialized engineer. They need to solve simple problems quickly and a $1M engineer no matter how good is not going to outcompete a team of 5 $200k engineers.