Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed • Hacker News Board

Re: Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed

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Post by rhizome » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 9:06 PM UTC

zaphirplane wrote: post #90

rhizome wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll add to my previous: everybody at the company works for a salary. In the US it's essentially illegal to volunteer for an organization that is not some kind of 501(c), and in California it's illegal not to pay everybody at least minimum wage, so let's stop joking: nobody is working for free, and any employee taking minimum wage (or $1/yr) is wealthy already. I don't have patience for the, "oh they had a salary so…

Unpaid Interns are one exception

You know what I mean.

Re: Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed

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Post by person_of_color » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 1:11 AM UTC

lanrh1836 wrote: post #23

I mean I joined a unicorn as a very employee and barely netted $1.3m. I’m not complaining, but there are far more certain ways to make that amount of money.

What field?

Re: Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed

#93

Post by w0mbat » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

I’m curious what deals were given to Eero engineers who survived the transition to Amazon, if any did. Did they get a better Amazon package than a random new-hire with their experience? I know of cases elsewhere where aqui-hires have gotten more options/units, shorter vesting, etc.