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Y'all are getting multiple job offers?
Also, they overlap? I was recently given two days to decide on an offer after a ten week interview process. I took it and dropped out of other interviews.
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Also, they overlap? I was recently given two days to decide on an offer after a ten week interview process. I took it and dropped out of other interviews.
If they refuse to give you more time (they often will, if you demand it) then just accept the offer and keep interviewing during the interim before your start date.
We pulled an offer we made because one of our candidates apparently had already accepted an earlier offer from another startup.
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I mean, you're both correct. It's kind of like how when selling a house your optimal strategy is rarely to try to appeal to the most people. Instead, modifications which greatly increase perceived value in a smaller subset (so long as it isn't too small for your personal goals) will alienate most customers but still increase the sale value in the same timespan. When you're applying for jobs, some companies aren't wil…
I haven't heard this about houses; any examples? Would it be something like replacing the kitchen?
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Case in point: 2 years ago i interviewed at a number of places with mind boggling valuations and most of the places I got offers from either no longer exist or laid off half their staff. It’s a lottery
Lottery tickets still have value.
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How did you get to equity packages being “routinely” worth millions when tech startups fail somewhere between 75% and >99% of the time (depending on estimates)? Seems far more likely that startup equity will be worth zero to typical individual contributor employees, not millions
By your own measure, if startups fail 99% of the time, shouldn't one value a $1M equity as $10k bonus? "Zero" does seem extreme, agree with the sentiment that "it's less than you think" but if you get lot of equity in a series-C startup, I wouldn't say that's equivalent to 0.
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You are hiring a cog to fit in the machine then, nothing more. And that's fine for some people who are just "passing through" with no concept of ownership of anything. A lot of people probably. But you're also going to miss out on people that take extreme ownership of success and failure that have really dedicated themselves to various crafts over their life and career. You will never, ever, ever get the performance…
This isn't necessarily true. You can hand craft a highly independent and empowered team at a large company (pets not cattle), and still have hundreds of candidates to sift through. At JPL, we did this. We were very careful about hiring, but did have many, many qualified candidates to choose from. But I will say, we were also careful to accommodate candidate schedules as much as possible, but yes, we did pass on folks…
Sounds like you're not there anymore, but Thank You.