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“the risk is too great” may also mean “the risk isn’t sufficiently compensated”, which is pretty common for early employee offers at startups. You’re bidding a
by stephencanon 12y ago
“the risk is too great” may also mean “the risk isn’t sufficiently compensated”, which is pretty common for early employee offers at startups. You’re bidding against Google, Apple, Facebook, etc, which pay large salaries for top talent and will almost surely be in business next year.
There’s nothing wrong with risk, but many people reasonably expect to be paid a premium to take it on.
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoThose places pay better salaries than startups for middling and bottom-barrel talent, too. Hell, even companies that aren't famous for being tech companies, but still leverage technology workers heavily, pay better base salaries than most of the startups I've seen.