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I don't think it's a bad thing (quite the opposite) but it's common to take high SV salaries that include hard-to-hit discretionary bonuses and hundreds of thou
by pc86 4y ago
I don't think it's a bad thing (quite the opposite) but it's common to take high SV salaries that include hard-to-hit discretionary bonuses and hundreds of thousands in stock, and compare that TC number to the $175k offered by the private company that's also hiring. It's an apples to hammers comparison.
- scarface74 4y agoAll of the public tech companies that I know about basically guarantee you cash + stock and a known vesting schedule over at least two years. Of course, we are living through the first era where BigTech stocks are tanking left and right. I just left working at “normal companies” most of my career to work at BigTech two years ago at 46. My base pay was about the same. But my stock/prorated signing bonus brought my total compensation up by around 25%. I can (and do) sell my stock as soon as it vests. I’m on the low end of BigTech compensation. I work remotely and did a slight career pivot from software engineering. Yes, I know about the dot com bust. Those weren’t large profitable tech companies and they didn’t have the head count that companies have now
- pragmatic 4y agoSuper curious what your career pivot was. Is there some engineering adjacent job that doesn’t come with a recruiter telling me to grind leetcode for 7-8 weeks for a chance to work on some weirdos space ship finance company? (Only kidding, mostly)
- scarface74 4y agoCloud application development consulting in Professional Services - “application modernization”