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Thanks for your detailed explanation. It’s so horrible. I wonder how long it will take for the US system to realize what a big mistake mistreating highly trained stem workers is. B…

Would love to hear more details about this too (same comment as the one I left in the parent message).

Heart breaking story, really (from a heavy Kubernetes user btw). Would you mind giving more details about what happened exactly? Why did you have to go back? What was the reason wh…

I took on a project in Java (web backend project) a few months ago, first Java experience, I was excited. After a couple months, the gratuitous (or what felt like gratuitous to me …

Thank you Sir/Ma'am, much appreciated.

The proposed tax plan should repeal the AMT tax, which is fundamentally a good thing for startup employees. My question is: if you already paid AMT tax in the past and are still ta…

I personally know sales folks in large enterprises (say Cisco) who do a lot of travelling and are able to get base salaries of ~250k and commissions of ~400-500k a year, on top of …

Haha I hope you're not being serious. If I had to estimate the probability of Google ever blocking my account over my life time I'd say 0.01%, whereas the probability of someone su…

Oh wow that would be really bad (not catastrophic since again I could recover Google with backup codes and from there email recovery for the other accounts). I heard good things ab…

Thanks for your reply. Yes, with Lastpass you can export all your data to a csv that is generated at runtime using your master password. Although, to be honest, why would I need th…

Thanks for your reply. That is a possibility, I might be naive but I consider it on the very unlikely side. What I would imagine in that case is that I would reset the important ot…

Hi After the latest events, I thought I'd share with HN what I do to protect myself from identity theft, and ask for suggestions. I'll try to be brief. The goal is to be in a sweet…

Hi, I've heard vastly different opinions when it comes to working at Facebook in an engineering position: some people say it's literally the best job ever because of the freedom, q…

Your logic makes sense. I have to point out though, that in reasonably "high quality" startups, what I've seen is: - Absolutely 1X liquidation preference - strike price between 0.1…

> A minor quibble: if you consider options/equity as part of employee compensation, then I see nothing special about preferred shareholders than means they 'need to recoup the mone…

Good points. Two considerations: First: Is it correct to assume that in normal conditions you should run away from any company with shady liquidation preferences? I've been in a fe…

Why would this post be flagged? I'm humbly looking for an explanation.

Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15107117 No house, all liquid.

It's really not that much if you look at the other responses. Anyway, the answer is linearly saving ~50% of income, I hope I'll get some sort of liquidity event from some stock opt…

Very nice! Did you get there through normal income and aggressive savings, or had some liquidity event from startups?

Impressive! Bitcoin, business or inheritance if I might ask? :)

I was right there at 24 :)

Hello HN The more I think about it, the more I am worried about the future and ability to provide for my family, and the most reasonable answer seems to have a good safety net, and…

Always use percentages with respect of the fully diluted number of stocks (preferred + common), absolute numbers are worthless. In my current company: - I joined as a senior softwa…