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In SF Bay area, my experience in the last year or so has been that salary comp is pretty much the same between start-ups and big companies, the only exception b
by svdad 14y ago
In SF Bay area, my experience in the last year or so has been that salary comp is pretty much the same between start-ups and big companies, the only exception being super-early-stage startups (i.e. pre-series A) where they really don't have the money yet. The difference is that at bigco, they add bonus and equity grant that have real value, while at startup, they add some % of equity with unknown value. Companies like Amazon and Netflix are also different because they adjust the base salary up to compensate for their different equity award policies.
- Evbn 14y agoAmazon pretty famously does not adjust base salaries upward compared to other big companies.
- svdad 14y agoYeah, I think I misspoke somewhat, but not entirely. The Amazon comp structure, at least for the first four years after you join, as far as I know is something like this (and take this with a grain of salt, I haven't worked there): Y1: Base + large annual cash (non-perf) bonus + 5% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus Y2: Base + large annual cash (non-perf) bonus + 15% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus Y3: Base + 40% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus Y4: Base + 40% stock vest + optional perf stock bonus So yeah, they don't adjust the base upward, but they do give you extra cash in the first two years to compensate for their back-loaded stock vesting schedule. That's what I meant.