Comment by ThrowAway7385

As feedback, you are overreacting and not being empathetic to the opposing view. The post you are calling out does not strike me as a rule violation at all; it is just normal discussion.

In a real sense, this article is very biased. The author had a rare and unique combination of luck, timing, and privilege where the normally highly-irrational calculus of throwing away such a highly prestigious job actually made sense.

Nowadays, FANG dishes out 200k TC offers to new grads even — work hard and do well, and you will make 400k as an L5 in five years at Google or Facebook.

Meanwhile, startups are staying private and only enriching their founders at the expense of their employees (see Adam Neumann), and the standard 120k plus “equity” new grad offer for the first engineer employee at some YC company that just graduated Demo Day no longer makes any sense.

People are just making decisions in their best interest, and you cannot fault them for that. I think it’s a bit disingenuous to encourage talented young people to waste their time otherwise by working for a startup. Let’s revisit the terms of the deal for talented young people first before lamenting that most of them are not willing to be volunteers.