> shares I had to opt in to, at the cost of some salary.
I think this is a fair way to approach the situation.
> People on this thread are making comparisons to 300k/yr Google salaries. ... But for employers, it's a pretty silly comparison.
Why though? You're competing with them, whether you like it or not. AmaGooFaceAppleSoft hired 45% (including those going on to grad school, etc) of my graduating class, and I didn't go to Stanford. No joke, it was really 45%. These companies are vacuuming up everyone, and some of them are shockingly easy to get an offer from.
Sure, they didn't get paid 300k/yr to start. But with how much the equity has appreciated since then, it's probably not that far off.
So that leaves you with the remaining 25% who didn't get hired/didn't want to work at at one of those companies/didn't go to grad school, and you're competing with every other startup for them - including the larger, more established ones who can reasonably say they won't disappear tomorrow (e.g. AirBnB).
I think this is a fair way to approach the situation.
> People on this thread are making comparisons to 300k/yr Google salaries. ... But for employers, it's a pretty silly comparison.
Why though? You're competing with them, whether you like it or not. AmaGooFaceAppleSoft hired 45% (including those going on to grad school, etc) of my graduating class, and I didn't go to Stanford. No joke, it was really 45%. These companies are vacuuming up everyone, and some of them are shockingly easy to get an offer from.
Sure, they didn't get paid 300k/yr to start. But with how much the equity has appreciated since then, it's probably not that far off.
So that leaves you with the remaining 25% who didn't get hired/didn't want to work at at one of those companies/didn't go to grad school, and you're competing with every other startup for them - including the larger, more established ones who can reasonably say they won't disappear tomorrow (e.g. AirBnB).