memmove33

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by memmove33 9y ago
What is the reason why they were diluted in your case? Was it "nefarious" (e.g. targeted specifically at you) or just a consequence of unfortunate circumstances (e.g. heavy downturn, aggressive liquidation preferences, ...)?
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by memmove33 9y ago
How is it possible to "dilute employees" from a technical point of view? Most of the times, even early employees, VPs and founders have common stocks, so how can one legally dilute just some employees without screwing the other co
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by memmove33 10y ago
It would be nice to know how good this liquidity deal is for early/late employees, after taking into account all dilutions, liquidation preferences and "misc royalties" of preferred shares holders. Could bring some hope (or o
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by memmove33 10y ago
Thanks for your reply! I am honestly very scared by the coding challenge I would have to pass for a SRE role :(
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Ask HN: Best career opportunity for a distributed systems/performance lover?
6 points by memmove33 10y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Best career opportunity for a distributed systems/performance lover?
2 points by memmove33 10y ago|0 comments
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by memmove33 10y ago
As fuzzy-logic said, just don't reveal your total comp, and be willing to walk away from it for real (walking away from such juicy offers requires the most determination, so it's important you do it from a position of power, for e
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by memmove33 10y ago
One last data point for you and then I'll stop, since you don't seem willing to believe me anyway. Did you ever read Chaos Monkey? ( https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure... ) The author was a
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by memmove33 10y ago
Poor formatting (editing from mobile). $150k is base salary. $1.8M is the additional RSU grant with 4 year vesting schedule heavily negotiated prior to joining (in these examples, with a bidding war between google, fb and another very big
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by memmove33 10y ago
Well, that's simply true. Two close acquaintances go like this: - age: 29 base: ~150k, RSU package: 1.8M negotiated upon joining (4y vesting) - age: 34 base: ~250k, RSU package: 3M, same terms Both are very solid individual contributor
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by memmove33 10y ago
As a further data point, some people in my personal network of comparable experience and age are pulling 500-700k a year from Google/fb. That of course includes RSUs, but that's literally the total compensation they are able to tr
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by memmove33 10y ago
I make that much: Senior Software Engineer at a startup (joined among the first 3 hires), Bay Area. About 6 years of experience. 200k$ base salary 50k$ performance bonus 1% ISOs (after considering dilutions. Company is ~1y post Series B)
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by memmove33 10y ago
Senior Software Engineer at a startup (joined among the first 3 hires), Bay Area. 200k$ base salary 50k$ performance bonus 1% ISOs (after considering dilutions. Company is ~1y post Series B)