employee_equity

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   by employee_equity 12y ago

   The main question to me is how generous the company is with its grants. I feel like mine was very generous pre-IPO, as they pursued a retention strategy (not wanting the typical exodus of folks when the lock up expires). However, if a compa
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   by employee_equity 12y ago

   I don't, unfortunately. The company had three series (A, B and C). Anecdotally I know that the company was not super generous with early employees. Part of what it did prior to IPO was to do a couple of refreshes to make sure people ha
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   by employee_equity 12y ago

   IC in Development, not a "senior" at that point. I'll also add that I was given a competitive salary as well (120K/year with around 15% bonus target) for my location.
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   by employee_equity 12y ago

   I was just an individual contributor dev. I was hired as a referral, though other folks we hired, even after me but before the IPO made out well. I was aware of the IPO plans, though the price I was given was about 3x less than what it ende
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   by employee_equity 12y ago

   I joined a company in the summer of 2011 that IPOed in the spring of 2012. Company was under 400 employees at the time (I was around #~380). The company is not Facebook or Twitter. My pre-IPO grants alone were worth over 1.5M, and my subseq