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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 downtur…

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…

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 preferre…

Thanks for your reply! I am honestly very scared by the coding challenge I would have to pass for a SRE role :(

Hello HN, I work as a generalist software engineer at a relatively small company with interesting scalability problems in the valley. I mostly focus on infrastructure operations bu…

Hello HN, I work as a generalist software engineer at a relatively small company with interesting scalability problems in the valley. I mostly focus on infrastructure operations bu…

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 i…

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-Fo…

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, …

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…

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 li…

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 (a…

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…

Hi HN I was the first engineer at a tech startup in SV and, after building and leading an engineering team and scaling the company to ~40 people, I was passed on for a promotion, s…