What should you do with stock options during a recession? • Hacker News Board

Re: What should you do with stock options during a recession?

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Post by exac » Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 3:09 AM UTC

subsubzero wrote: post #235

twiceaday wrote: post #56

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I advise you to think 'if I had the value of these shares as cash would I spend 100% of it on shares of this company?' The loss already happened, that part is done. The shares have no memory and won't 'rebound' like a rubber-band just because they were down before. What matters is new things that the company does going forward, relative to all other companies.

So I think the company is solid, leadership great, product great etc. its just the stock is in the toilet, she is not selling right now, its just a bummer dealing with all the work she put in, the forced relocation, and personal money put into this company.

In my humble opinion, this is a sunken cost. Diversify at the very least.

Re: What should you do with stock options during a recession?

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Post by FatCat321 » Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 3:13 PM UTC

maerF0x0 wrote: post #55

> If you leave the company, your options will expire if you don’t exercise them. Let me repeat that: if you leave the company, your options will expire if you don’t exercise them. The exact timeline of how quickly they expire depends on option type and company policy, but the termination window is commonly as short as 90 days. So, exercising your options enables you to actually own what you helped build. This is why…

What if you could evaluate a company in a way that you maximize your chances. So look at things like options expiration, founders. Kind of what VCs do. Maybe that's why you should assess the startup you want to work for.

Re: What should you do with stock options during a recession?

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Post by kortilla » Sat, Jun 18, 2022, 7:25 AM UTC

astrange wrote: post #237

kortilla wrote: post #182

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It’s how the interview process works for all swe hires and MANGA. You just don’t know it name.

I do interview people at a MANGA and think I know more about it than you do.

Then why are you asking what leetcode is? I’m literally telling you that the process google, meta, and Amazon (never worked at apple or nflx so can’t speak to them) follow is programming challenges that require some algorithms and data structures knowledge.

This is known in the industry as leetcode because the leetcode website is entirely dedicated to practicing said problems and has entire categories dedicated to the leaked algorithms questions from these big companies.