Comment by ping_pong

This article is garbage.

Over the last 8 years or so, FANG stock has gone through the roof. Most FANG engineers are multi-millionaires if they have been there going back 8 years. I have a friend whose Facebook stock doubled in the last 3 years and she will have been paid over 3M over 4 years.

Meanwhile, I have a friend who has been bouncing around startups, making zero in equity (because they all failed) and he gave up a job at Google. His equity would have been worth over 2M had he stayed.

I myself worked at a YC startup that had a large exit, and only made about $80k over 4 years (most of the money went to the founders even though I was employee 40). I then joined one of the unicorns and also made about 250k in equity over 5 years. Had I concentrated on my FANG interviews more, I would have made much much much more money over the last 5 years.