too late to join the Pinterest party?

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Mar 15, 2019 22 Comments

to preface: I know embarrassingly little about how IPOs work and how pre-IPO companies compensate their employees. I've only ever worked for a post-IPO Google, and RSUs have been a regular form of my TC ever since I first joined a few years ago. I've never had stock options and I only know basics about them. I've also never really researched this IPO stuff, and I know I ought to. but in the meantime, I'd love to hear from more knowledgeable people on here.

the situation: I'll soon be interviewing with Pinterest, which I know has not yet had its IPO. however, according to the news, Pinterest has confidentially filed for IPO as of February.

question 1: could someone explain whether I'm too "late to the party" to really benefit from joining Pinterest pre-IPO?

question 2: are there specific things I should know about if/when I'm negotiating my offer package?

I have an uninformed arbitrary suspicion that confidentially filing for an IPO might require Pinterest to freeze giving out generous stock packages to subsequent hires? can anyone comment on this?

also, if anyone has wisdom to share about pre-IPO companies and joining at different stages of pre-IPO, as well as the current impressions that the tech industry has about specifically joining Pinterest right now, I'd love to hear it. thank you!

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