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- Risk? Early stage startup comp Hi everyone, Debating jumping from my current relatively stable company to a 10 person startup. ive worked with them before - good leadership, good product (needs a better UI though), and they have a few couple million dollar gov/intelligence contracts. they are a known, small entity in my immedia
- Startup equity for first employee with no salary? I’ve been offered a role in a startup as the first employee 3% vesting over three years commissions only contract. Is this good/normal?
- Miserable at work due to manager I feel my life is insanely miserable, I dread waking up every single weekday and weekends are just an anticipation for the crap that’s going to come on Monday. My manager is horrible, she is the most untalented, uninspiring, political and bureaucratic non-leading leader I’ve ever met in my career,
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and industry lounge. - Perfect TC, remote job, but I want FAANG: am I crazy? I was a very early employee at a startup that was fully remote from the beginning. The startup did well, and now my comp is pretty high, ~800k. The 800k is based on the last preferred share price (Series E late stage), so a big part of it is still illiquid, but my base of 250k is pretty good and I h
- Demystifying startup equity components Equity here means stock, espp, options etc everything. Assume (for simplicity) that a typical unicorn has more than a 100 engineers and there are 10 folks with heavy titles like CEO, CTO, VPs etc. If the big folks take 5% stake on an average, then rest 100 are left with 50% stake, each with 0.5% sta
- vote Lowballed by Google(EDIT: Google pays up) EDIT : Updated communication from Google; see bottom edit Location : India YoE : 3 Offer : L4, 50k USD(35L INR) Competing : Microsoft L61, ~60k(42L INR)(65k/45L including 10% perf+reloc) Current : 50k(43k cash+ options; series H startup). This is a core data science engineering team that I'm reall
- My manager suggested me to leave?! Here’s the deal. I was a very early employee at a startup and as a result the value of my equity package grew significantly in the past 3 years, to the point where my TC is now around 900k/y (200k of which is base). Obviously it’s not liquid, but in the past the company has offered limited buybacks
- F*cking startups Top things that startup colleagues have said or done: 1. "Move fast break things" 2. "I wake up at 4am and read a book" 3. Writing down a list of things to do that day... "It's called habit building bro, Jeff Bezos does it" 4. "Go on r/startups dude, everything you need to know is on there." 5.
- Startup exit and vested shares For people who have gone through a successful acquisition, has it ever happened that the acquirer company made you re-vest the startup equity that you already *vested and exercised*? And if they did that, how did it work with employees who exercised their equity and then left the startup before the
- I have the biggest golden handcuffs: startup equity I was an early employee at a startup and would really like to leave, but I’ve done the math on TurboTax just now and exercising my vested options would incur into a payment of 240k between exercise cost (40k) and AMT payment on the hypothetical gain (200k). The math is unfortunately correct and matc
- Should I leave, given the following info (I have an offer) Am I happy at FB? Sort of, I like the perks and pay. I'm doing ok, ratings are meets all and on track to promo to E5. Why not change team? Since I'm on track to promo to E5, changing teams seems counter productive to all the work I've done, I'd rather get promoted then change teams. Why am I consi
- I rejected an offer from UBER in mid 2013... I rejected an offer from UBER in 2013 because I thought it was overvalued and not a startup anymore ( Yes that was stupid). I do not know the exact numbers but salary was much lower than what I was making. Ended up joining a smaller startup with good paper equity that did not go anywhere . Any one f
- Series B startup salary, ~50M funding I’m looking at a series B startup that has total of ~50M total funding. Currently T4 2 years out of school, what salary range / equity package can I expect? current TC ~260k due to stock price growth / IPO I’m expecting 0.01-0.1% equity. Is this reasonable?
- Negotiation Practice I have an offer from a series-c startup that I will be countering. What the best practice when going about this? Do you present everything at once (+X% base, +X% equity, +X% bonus, +$XK sign-on) or hit one area at a time and prioritize? Also, if the employer doesn't usually give out annual bonuses
- $1 cash worth of pre-ipo equity it is a startup makes money, raised a recent round D or E. I am seeking a ratio. For 1 dollar as cash how much pre-ipo equity is fair.
- Negotiating Comp at a startup thinking about taking an offer from a startup, they do a hundred mil or so or revenue, not yet break even, valued at 250-500 mil. they cap their salary between 150-170 and only offer options, with a $1 strike price, they forecast 5-7x in 3 years. startup has room to grow and they want to bring me o
- early stage employee/exec need advice. We have a new person joining our startup. He would be employee number 3 (not counting our cofounders). It’s a bit sticky because he’s coming is as an investor and taking a senior role in the company (COO) guy has lots of experience but on the emplyee side he is asking for 15% equity and
- 50K TC + 0.5% equity at Pre-seed startup (SF) I'm the first hire. I love the team and company but they can't afford to increase my salary and I'm based in SF so barely making ends meet. I'm early in my career and could probably quickly grow into a senior role at this company if I stay. Deciding whether to prioritize compensation or career advan
- Rate my offer I got offer in a series B startup in bay area. Base 210k, annual bonus 10-15%, 1.1 million equity for valuation 4 billion. How do you guys rate this offer ? YOE is 12
- Joining early stage startup without equity? Evaluate offer: 127k base Upto 30% year end bonus. No equity offered Yoe: 4yrs It's an early stage startup. What's your take on the offer? Does asking for equity make sense? Is it good to rely on whether the 30% bonus will be offered at year end or it's just a lollipop? What factors you should cou
- Offer Decent? NYC Tech Startup Debating my first startup position. Account Director/Project Director 165k base 10-20% Bonus 0.75% equity Pre Series A NYC based tech startup. Have to move from another, much cheaper, big city.
- Do you regret working at a startup? Share your stories I'm talking about the downsides you didn't realise until later. For example, I joined a startup as employee #3 but I never realised equity will get diluted 20x if taking on rounds of investors so I was essentially holding 0.5% (around $40,000) which is peanuts after 3 years. What are some of your
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and industry lounge. - VP Eng at early stage startup or Senior Manager at FAANG I'm facing an interesting career fork. I'm a startup veteran (seed to D, never worked at FAANG) and been an exec (VP Eng) for the last 4 years now, managing teams as big as 45, and building them from scratch. If I'm honest, I enjoy the job, the status and the power that comes with it. It also fits
- Is my current TC fair? I work at a startup in southern California, which has grown from 5 employees to 75+ during the 7 years I've been here. I am currently Director of both the Ecommerce and IT departments, and also doing full stack web and application development and managing outside dev teams. I have built a very succ
- Evaluate this startup offer Previously SWE at Google TC 250k 4 YOE Startup is offering 110k-130k salary and .2%-.3% equity. Seed stage with decent amount of cash. Super low right?
- Start up vs McKinsey Looking for opinions on which offer to go with. Startup: 170k, 4% equity, 30k sign on. Profitable and raising a seed. McKinsey: low 200k. Senior EM.
- Series B startup TC eval for Sr. Manager COMPANY INFO: Latest funding round: Series B Valuation: $160M Funding till date: $50M Location: San Francisco Other info: Co-founders very confident about raising Series C later this year at >$1B valuation. OFFER INFO: Position: Sr. Engineering Manager Base: $220k Equity: 0.06% ($96k total for 4yr
- Startup Comp I am working for a Unicorn Startup. Having another offer from series A startup with greater equity but base salary is 25% less than current. I can try to negotiate to make it to ~15% instead 25% less than current base. Should I compromise for a less base for better Equity and Learnings? *Not in V
- Joining an early stage startup Was reached out by an early stage stealth startup to head some function. Equity they are offering is 0.7 percent. The founders have had a successful previous exit ~ 700M. What questions should I ask? What aspects should I think about? Any previous experience and inputs would be appreciated. I want
- vote Important career decision - need perspective! Lucky enough to have 2 offers, but extremely torn... A) Finance Manager at Google $250 cash (base + sign on + target) $250 GSUs Role = L6 on fintech team B) VP at well-funded blockchain startup (platform, not random coins) $275 cash (base) $200 equity/token mix Role = leading ops on flagship produ
- Underpaid Startup Early Employee Career Advice Bear with me, long rant: I have been working for a series-A fintech startup in San Francisco for 3y after graduation as a software engineer. Current compensation is 95k salary. I was the 10th employee to join this company, and now we have 30 people in total. Last year, I was promised a raise for t
- vote Am I overpaid? For some reason I’ve been kinda paranoid and nervous because of my TC. I’m afraid that it’s too high for me and that I would be the first one to be laid off should anything happen to my company. To give you a little background, I busted my ass to practice interviewing and became pretty good at it.
- How much equity should I have? First time full time role at a startup. Employee #2 with private equity experience. How much equity should I have? Salary is reasonable.
- Sharing offer numbers Just joined FB as SWE in ML. 10 years of somewhat unrelated experience (not SWE) and PhD in CS before that. Base/RSU/BonusPct/StartingBonus/TC. TC doesn't include starting bonus. In chronological order of offer. Dropbox, IC4. 210/600/20/0/402 FB, E6. 225/1M/20/100/520 Google, L5. 190/920/15/100/4
- Key startup employees: how was your retention package at exit? I’m in the position of being a very early SWE at a startup (employee #3, startup is now 270 people) that might have a successful exit in a couple years, and I’ve been advised from various people (outside the company) that I should stay until the end because there will likely be an additional pot of
- vote PM - Product - which offer to take Hi All, I have three offers and don’t know which one to pick. The first is a Blockchain startup within a larger public company. They are offering 160k base, 10k in equity, 10k signing and 100% 401k matching up to 6%. They also said that they can match any offer and this offer is negotiable (they s
- Worth switching to FAANG for less comp? Hello Blind, I am severely burned out and depressed by my current job situation, so I hope I could get some wise advice. I have 8yoe and I was an early employee at a startup that is growing quite well. As a result, my compensation is significantly high due to valuation increase, and I am currently
- Looking for app developer for a side project Feeling out the startup waters in my spare time. Need an app developer who’s willing to start on a side project with the potential for it to become a fulls time gig. UX design experience is a must. Equity based comp structure. Greater Seattle area is preferred.
- Salary Progression at Startup vs FAANG? New grad here, will be joining a 50 person Series B startup in SF. Love the culture, team, work life balance, and comp is decent. I’m worried that I won’t have the kind of progression in salary and role as I would at FAANG, since startups have a flatter structure. Honestly, seeing some of these bal
- Thinking to join Startup Thinking to join a startup (stealth mode) TC is almost the same but of course apple is consist of base + bonus + rsu but startup is all cash with same TC + equity. Offer is : 210k base + 1.2% equity Apple: 130k base + 70k rsu + 10k bonus Good or not?
- Why some swe don’t care about comp? I work at a startup with these couple brilliant 10X engineers, much more talented than me and with more experience than me. Yet, I know they make 30% less than me and 25X less equity (!) despite having joined in the same time span. They say they don’t care about comp, they care about doing cool stu
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and industry lounge. - How can I vet a MOBILE eng without being one myself for a startup job? Such as take home assignment I’m working on a startup with me friend but I am a Data Scientist and he’s a backend software engineer (builds data transformation pipelines primarily). My friend had some web experience but no mobile experience at all, and I’m not an engineer, I just work with data once it already exists. We’re hi
- Director comp in Series C startup What comp (base salary, equity, bonus if any) should I expect for product director role in a Series C startup in San Francisco?
- Which Autonomous Driving offer should I take? Nvidia AV team 280K Cruise 320K Zoox 345K The first two have a lot more cash and the last one is mostly just equity. It doesn’t seems to me that those stock are going to liquidate soon though. So I really don’t know how to compare the number on these offers. They told me that some AV startup will b
- vote Take it or Stay? Current TC: 210k Startup offer: 200 base + 0.05% equity. Startup has been backed by Good venture companies and have series B funding. Cant disclose the name since its Stealth mode.
- vote Please give some advise on which TC to pick. Thanks! YOE:1 year after undergrad as associate data engineer at Northwestern Mutual in NYC. My current pay is 72k and 5% bonus. After grinding leetcode every Sunday, reading data system books and online courses. I have 2 offers right now and still interviewing with Bloomberg. Offer 1: media adtech startu
- Am I wrong in not wanting kids? Hi I am a 32yo male and, for as far as I can remember, I never wanted to have kids, it has always been firm in my mind. I feel they are a massive expense (at least in the coastal US) and a terrible limiter of my personal freedom. Most of my acquaintances who have kids seem very happy to pour all t
- vote Ideal net worth to start a startup? I have been in several startups over the years and cultivated a good network and reputation: I have a couple VCs that keep bugging me to go work for them as EIR (entrepreneur in residence), where they basically take you under their wing, give you a salary for one year or so and match you with anothe
- Compensation at a Seed Stage Company A seed stage company with 600K raised is offering my cousin 80k base and 0.5% equity. He has 2 years of experience and works for a series B startup as Front End/ Full stack engineer. TC 120K with 25K options. His company is not on blind. Is this a fair offer? Thoughts ? My TC: 375K
- Advice negotiating offer at seed-level startup TC: $325k, 15+ YoE in ENG+Product, most of that in management roles. Negotiating an offer to join a 6-person startup in SF with $2.25m in seed funding to-date (looking to raise a bigger round within 6mo). Great product, great team, etc. Offer: Role: 1st product guy + manage most of the company +