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Startup equity should be assumed to have a value of 0, which statistically it does. I've never seen one be competitive on actual hard currency compensation - e

Startup equity should be assumed to have a value of 0, which statistically it does. I've never seen one be competitive on actual hard currency compensation - even the hot ones. And that's before valuing your time per hour worked. I'd love to see examples of Amazon trying to enforce noncompetes at levels lower than VP, because I've never seen it. Folks move to direct competitors all the time - AWS to Azure or Oracle, etc.

dilyevsky 2y ago
> I'd love to see examples of Amazon trying to enforce noncompetes at levels lower than VP, because I've never seen it. Easy[0]. I also know a few cases where a 3rd company refused to extend an offer due to legal flagging it [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975428 > I've never seen one be competitive on actual hard currency compensation - even the hot ones OpenAI famously was pretty generous. It’s all public data now due to lawsuits