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In the meantime I work on building my own sellable tech.
Hope that helps, I'm working on a sweet e-commerce platform right now and building just little sellable tools
In the meantime I work on building my own sellable tech.
Hope that helps, I'm working on a sweet e-commerce platform right now and building just little sellable tools
You've got a bunch of options, depending on your interests and skills. You could be a repository-of-lore brilliant coder / guru. Sounds like this is roughly what the CEO has carved out for you right now. You could be CTO/Head of Engineering. You may or may not want this job or be suited to it, based on what you've said so far. You could sink down into the organization as a (hopefully) really rich mid-level engineer a…
somewhat related question - doesn't the huge taxes on the options exercise upon leaving make that huge difference between leaving and staying? How does people manage it? Doesn't it forces you to stay until the exit?
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BTW, where are you located?
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BTW, where are you located?
You've got a bunch of options, depending on your interests and skills. You could be a repository-of-lore brilliant coder / guru. Sounds like this is roughly what the CEO has carved out for you right now. You could be CTO/Head of Engineering. You may or may not want this job or be suited to it, based on what you've said so far. You could sink down into the organization as a (hopefully) really rich mid-level engineer a…
> At some level, if you're a few years into vesting, and the company is successful, it may not significantly change your financial outcome to stay -- you have early stage stock in a successful startup. somewhat related question - doesn't the huge taxes on the options exercise upon leaving make that huge difference between leaving and staying? How does people manage it? Doesn't it forces you to stay until the exit?
In a friendly situation if the company is in good shape, there are probably lots of options, including some sort of buyback to get enough cash for the taxes, or finding an investor who'd like the shares. If the company isn't doing as well as advertised, those possiblities are probably harder to get sorted.
Evangelize.
Side project.
you need to figure that out, ask for it, and if you don't get it, leave.
One thing you need to come to grips is that regardless of how smart you are, the VP of engineering is probably someone that has a lot more experience and clout than you do. If they aren't, then the senior management of the company is terrible. If your company has grown to the size of 40-50 people, that's the time when they need real experience to help drive them forward. They can't take a chance on a great programmer…
Why is it acceptable for the Founder/CEO to continue leading the company at 40+ employees but not acceptable for the engineer to lead an engineering team at 40+ employees? Seems like a double standard.
EDIT: The only benefit of working at startup (and a significant one) is to learn how startups work. If thats taken away from you then there is no point in risking your career.
I'd focus on a repeating theme in your post, "and now they". This suggests that you already see a division between the management of the company and yourself. You haven't been part of the decision making process and feel that all possible angles have been locked out by an outside agency. How much feedback have you given to the company management that you would be interested in those positions before they where "taken…
That sounds good too, but aren't you presupposing that this course of things is normal. The OP is saying things turned out differently than expected, and such dissonance really bugs him. Why would he work harder to communicate when working hard has failed so poorly in the past? Second and third world people probably have similar problems too.
Communication is possibly the hardest thing to get right between two people, because it seems so effortless.