FWIW: This experience isn't all that rare, it is just rarely mentioned publicly.
"That only happens to ..."
I respect the folks working at AppAmaGooBookSoft a lot. I have met a lot of them, including a lot at my impression of this level, and my capsule summary is "Mostly, talented professionals who are not very dissimilar from other talented professionals."
I respect the folks working at AppAmaGooBookSoft a lot. I have met a lot of them, including a lot at my impression of this level, and my capsule summary is "Mostly, talented professionals who are not very dissimilar from other talented professionals."
"Why do you harp on engineering salaries so often?"
Weird hobbies, plus an abiding interest in the wellbeing of geeks. Every time someone negotiates this package I'm happy for them, and would be even happier if they got the next $50k versus e.g. Google keeping it.
Weird hobbies, plus an abiding interest in the wellbeing of geeks. Every time someone negotiates this package I'm happy for them, and would be even happier if they got the next $50k versus e.g. Google keeping it.
There is an ongoing ecosystemic negotiation happening not between particular engineers and particular firms but between founders, talent, private capital, and public capital, and separately between the set of those and the wider world, on how to cut the cake engineers bake.
I'm as capitalist as the day is long, but when I think e.g. the employee options pool by convention gets sized at 20%, I think "I mean, Schelling points are Schelling points, but I attach no moral significance to that number. If it were 40%, then it would be 40%; also fair."
Similarly "Google, a sophisticated organization which has an informational advantage in every conversation with every geek ever, was OK with paying candidates similar to this ~$150k in 2005. That may have been fair, but it certainly doesn't upper bound the numbers that are fair."
