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- Startup offer evaluation Current working in Big bank as Tech Lead with not much work pressure Current TC - 145K Got a startup offer as Tech Lead with no funding raised yet with TC - 185K and .25% equity. Total Estimated valuation of the company to be 150M. No benefits yet Location - Remote YOE - 9 Years Please help me
- Startup offer eval Hi, I got a job offer for a leadership position at a B series startup. 195k base and .4% equity over 4 years (current evaluation about 900k but with large growth potential). Base pay and benefits are less than current package and equity is of course uncertain. Any recommendations on how to compare t
- Startup offer evaluation I am currently a MLE L6 at G Yoe at G 6; total yoe 9 TC 550k at bay area I got an offer from a series B fintech startup in Seattle. Base 260k no annual bonus mentioned. Stock option 310k unit with strike price the same as FMV at 3.2 dollars per share ( vest over 4 years) I really have a hard time t
- Startup offer evaluation Hello Guys, I got an offer from a fintech startup as a tech lead for 185k no annual bonus and .25% equity which would be vested over 4 years. Startup is in very early stages, it did not even go for series A funding. #equity #startup
- Evaluate startup offer I'm in a process of deciding if I have to accept an offer from an series A startup. The market they are in is niche but very good potential to be acquired. I'm thinking about the connections and exposure I would get working there and how it could help me long term. Offer - 195K, 10%, .3 Current TC
- Startup Offer Eval Bay Area YOE: 20 Current TC: 385 Offer: 180 + 0.1% equity. Series A - Valued at 140M 50 Employees so far. Is title important? Should I take the offer? If i should negotiate what’s the equity % is decent? I know more is better but I want to be reasonable for the startup as well as me. Your tak
- [India]Rate my Startup offer Series A Current TC: 92 lpa(60 base + 32 Rsu per year) Yoe: 12 Offer: 70 Base + (0.165 percent equity) Note: It is a US based company and has already closed series B but anouncement pending. My offer is at seris A strike and percent ownership is for for seris A outstanding before dilution. Company val post
- Startup offer Recently got an offer from a series D startup, already checked out https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database, but would appreciate some idea about how good or bad it is if I accept the offer. Cause it's almost impossible to do apple to apple comparison. YOE 6 Current TC 320K (200K base)
- Startup offer evaluation I got an offer from a Series C startup in SF for Senior software engineer. Base -> 210K Stock option 5K (ISO), equity valued at 50, strike price - $5 -6 vest period - 4 years (Really no idea how stock options works). no bonus Current valuation: 1.2B Can anyone help me on if this is reasonable?
- Evaluate startup offer I received a startup offer from series-c startup. They are giving me stock options based on their future projected valuation. Vesting is heavily back loaded. Is it worth joining? The offer is for Sr. Director role. Offered base - 285k Offered stock options -$750k worth at current valuation over 4
- Startup Offer I received a startup series D offer. $2B valuation, last funding $150M. Title: Senior Program Manager Base: $160k Bonus: 5% Options: 5000 My YOE: 8, 4 in program management Location: Seattle Any ideas how to calculate options? I only have the strike price and don’t know if there is a 100 multi
- vote Seed stage startup offer advice I just received an offer from a seed-stage startup for $147k base and 0.5% equity in the form of stock options to join as one of the first engineers. I am currently an L3 at Google with a base of $135k. The startup raised 4.2m in their seed round, but I don't know the valuation yet. I'm not quite
- Hottest startups that are yet to IPO We have seen it all, snowflake DoorDash Airbnb. Which ones are still out there #tech
- vote Two Offers - Google or Startup Hey everyone, Got the final numbers from two different places. One is Google, L4. The other is a Staff Engineer at a Startup. Startup 250k Base 30k Sign-On 12,000 Options (Strike Price around $10-11, but kind of unknown) Unsure when the company will IPO, could be 2-5 years. Y1 280k Y2 - IPO - 25
- vote startup offer Hi .. I have got a start-up offer for a hardware position. My current TC : 115(base) + 12K bonus +8K stocks - 133K TC Start up offer : 150K(base) + (7000*(5.9-1.14)/4) - 158K 7000 options granted(strike price of $ 1.14) ( recent preferred price $5.9 according to offer) (1-year cliff) I am really
- vote Offer eval - startup hello hello I have a pending offer from a startup and I'm on the fence about it, so would love the blind wisdom to help out here YOE: 4, engineering New TC: $145k base + $80k equity over 3 years Old TC: $115k (base+stocks) I don't know what other information to give here so if there's anything els
- Startup offer eval 🤔 Series F Startup is offering only 26 stock option at 3800$ per stock vesting over 4 years. That means I can buy only 6 first year and so on. Currently startup is at ~20B evaluation. Also looks like in one year they will go IPO. What do you think isn’t that too high valuations? Should I join the
- Reneging startup offer for MSFT? How bad is it to reneg a startup offer after accepting it for a MSFT offer? MSFT TC: 210K real money + bonus not so famous startup: 155K base + 10K stock option + 10% bonus #tech #reneging #msft
- Startup offer What are some things than need to be included in a startup offer regarding equity? I got an offer from a startup, they communicated all the numbers verbally, nothing was written and then upon agreeing, I get a contract with the agreed upon total comp but only the number of shares that will be grant
- Startup offer Would you consider an offer at startup without equity? Is it worth it? #engineering #software #swe
- vote Series A startup offer Got an offer from a series A enterprise startup. They are valued at $85M and raised $15M as part of series A. They had raised $3M as part of their seed. Less than 10 employees currently. First time entrepreneurs. Grade 1 investors. Base: 185k Equity: 0.8% options Sign-on: TBD Current TC - 270k Yoe
- vote Series B startup offer Evaluating a startup offer as Staff Eng. Current valuation 200-300M. Double digit millions ARR (still getting details), 3x++ YoY ARR growth and great product market fit. Space is dev productivity/infra. Any thoughts on this offer? base: 215k bonus: 10% equity: 0.15% new TC: ~330k at current valuati
- Startup offering 8% to build MVP Startup with a decent payments idea. They are willing to give me 8% to build the mvp. But it’s 8% of nothing. Is this ever a good deal? Three cofounders with no company, getting the rest of the equity. Only consolation is the momentum they have in terms of a few companies they know who will use the
- Startup offer How would you evaluate this offer? Pre IPO startup, DS, 170k base and pre IPO stocks. What should I consider to negotioate? What to consider before accepting? Any help is appreciated. PhD ML recent grad
- What are good pre IPO startups to join now We all saw how #airbnb and #doordash IPOs went and how they made majority of their employees millionaires. Robinhood looks screwed maybe at least for now. (I mentioned before that instacart IPO is screwed but it turned out my understanding of their business is screwed 😂 sorry) Are there any other
- Autonomous Startup Offer: Hardware Role Senior Staff HW Base: 250k Sign-on: 50k (Split over two years) Equity ISO (options): 2000/4 (value: 130k/4) Target IPO: 2026 equity Equity details: Options: 2000 2022 Strike Price: $30 (super inflated?) 2026 Price/share: $95 Increase in stock option price: $65 Stock option value (ISO): 65/s
- Startup offer I'm L5 at Google and got an offer from a 100M$ valued startup: Option A) 120k + 0.3% stock for 3 years Option B) 100k +0.3% stock for 4 years, 0.1% when the company grows to 500M$ Currently I earn according to median Google L5. Please help me decide how good of an offer this is.
- Startup Offer Hi All I have got a start-up offer for a senior SDE position. My current TC : 134(base) + 10K bonus +7K stocks - 151K TC Start up offer : 185K(base) + (28000*(7.6-2 )/4) ~227K Sign on bonus : 20k Location : Seattle YOE : 6 Latest funding round : series D ~200 million Current valuation: 1.5 Bill
- vote AI hardware startup offer evaluation Hi, I have an offer for AI hardware startup for senior engineering manager (AI software) role. Base: 225K Sign on: 25K Stock options: 55K (~330K based on last valuation) My current TC is 250K with Intel and with pay adjustment and likely promotion it will be around 300K starting 2022. The start
- Amazon SDM L5 offer & startup offer I got interviewed for SDM L6 with Elastic Block Storage team but recruiter called and told me that they are going to get me an offer for L5 SDM and will be matching me with a different team due to technical lags . I am also told that while talking to the new manager while match, i should talk abou
- Series C Startup Offer Received an offer from a series C startup worth $1.5 billion. Startup funding progression looks like: Series A: $20 million (2017) Series B: $70 million (2019) Series C: $170 million (2021) Revenue growth has tripled from $10 million to $30 million in the last year. Company has plans to IPO but wi
- vote Startup offer evaluation Got an offer from unicorn tech startup. Details below. I am very confused about whether to stay at my current company where I am bound to grow my TC 10-15% YoY, or take this offer. Role - Director of Strategy Valuation - $1B Base - $225k Joining bonus - $40k # of options - 20k Strike price - $15 P
- What are the top pre-IPO tech startups to work for? Just as the title asks. What are the top pre-IPO tech startups to work for? Where would you want to work, if you could? #startup #pm #benefits #growth
- Startup offer just received an offer from a series b startup for a mid-level SWE role base: $155k signon: $20k equity: 0.04% wondering how competitive this is YOE: 1.5
- vote Startup Offer Received an offer for a part time SWE gig from a Fin tech startup still in its pre-seed phase. Going to be employee number 20 if not lower. Tech stack is all new to me so there is going to be a steep learning curve. I'm up for the challenge however not sure if the offer is ample or should I ask fo
- Startup offer Got a startup offer for a staff engineer position with $210k base and $900k options (spread), roughly 6bps, series D, how much should I negotiate more? I believe the company has a lot of upside, but it’s startup. Current TC $700k+.
- vote Startup Offer Evaluation Offered a position for late stage startup with following compensation. Works in Fintech. Does it look good. What can be improved. Base : 150K Shares : 500 over 4 years Current valuation : 2 Billion Strike Price : $55 Current TC : 240K YOE : 10 Like the team and work but I think it’s way low bal
- vote Startup offer eval This is my first time interviewing at a startup, so thanks for the help. Any questions/details I should ask them for in regards to the stock options? Initial Offer: Base: $210k Stock Options: 2,500 ISOs over 4 years, strike $23, preferred $70, valued at around $2.5b. TC: $250k (post drop, granted
- vote Berlin startup offer Hi, I got an offer from a startup in berlin with a 70k + 14k vsop option, Can someone suggest if its a good offer or I should pass it and try in some other companies Current TC - 24.5 L India YOE - 4.5 yrs #berlin #startup #offer #india
- Evaluating Blockchain startup offer Base 160k Token Options 800k over 4 years First time getting a blockchain offer. What are token options, and why it is good (or not good)? Is this a common practice for blockchain (coin) startups? TC 160k
- vote Startup offer eval Current TC 260-280 depending on market 143/10% bonus/90-100k stock Joining early stage startup (seed) ~1%, 180k base, 25k sign, TC 250ish Kinda bored at FAANG looking for change. team looks really good on paper but in practice it’s just mediocre with circular big company meetings where nothing is
- Startup Offer 13 YOE current TC 390k Got offer for “Ninja” at a Series B startup. They told me they dont do real level names to keep recruiters away. Offered 130k base and 50k in equity. Current strike is $2.36; CEO says they feel they are at $12-15 a share. New TC is about $317k a year do it?
- Startup offer evaluation Offer (mainly base) looks subpar - Let me know what a reasonable counter would be Series C startup 1.5B evaluation with 160 employees in SFO 205K base + 700K$ worth ISOs @ strike price of 1/3rd current market price Vesting schedule: 1/4th at 1st anniversary & 1/48 every month YOE - 17 Current TC:
- Startup offer I have received an offer from an startup (series E, valuation 750million - 1 billion). Please evaluate my offer: Offer: Role: SWE Location: Bay Area Base: 190k Option units: 35k (strike price: $3-$5) Bonus: None YOE: 10 years Current TC: 250k (base: 200k) How can I negotiate the offer? #equ
- Startup offer evaluation Got a starting offer from a Series D+ ~2B valuation startup, most interested in evaluating if equity offer is any good. Base + Bonus ~= 300k Equity: 200k/4yrs options=50k/yr, strike $1.5, preferred $3 (they shared fully diluted outstanding) So equity is worth about $75k/yr without growth. I'm a bi
- vote France unicorn startup offer I got this offer from a Paris startup for a senior leadership role - Base pay - 130k€ Number of leaves in a year - 36 days Post tax, my in hand is actually lower than what I make currently but compensating for the extra month off and arguably better work life balance, the offer is very tempting.
- Late Stage Startup Offer Negotiation Non-Bay Area / MCOL Base: ~170k Bonus: 15% Options: 16,000; strike price $5, FMV $10-25 somewhere (I’m guessing) Can anyone help me on if this is reasonable? What should I negotiate? Current TC ~200 already, so original offer doesn’t feel super appealing. How much more should I ask for? Series E
- Startup offer evaluation 0.60% of company, pre seriaA, 7 million seed. seria A in next 6 months. Base 165 Options : 0.60% Current TC: 450K Not sure it’s worth to toil for 4-5 years for a possible 800 million exit.
- Does Meta/Google try to match startup offers? I got an offer from a somewhat(?) reputable unicorn, that blows Meta's offer out of the water IF we're talking about total compensation. The unicorn is paying average salary but a ridiculous amount of equity. Will Meta or Google match the offer? I've heard Google discounts startup equity by 30% duri
- vote Startup offer Help me decide. I have below offer from Series C startup valued little above 1 billion. I do believe in this startup and it's future growth but they may not go IPO soon, may be in 2 years. Base 240 Sign on : 40 Equity: 120k units (0.05) at strike price $1.5 vested over 4 yrs. Current TC at publi