Comment by kstrauser

5 months ago

I routinely get emails like "we'd like to hire you as our CTO, and because we just got a bunch of VC money, we're prepared to offer you a generous comp package of up to $90,000 salary plus .05% equity! Must be onsite in San Francisco."

If they were aware of market rates, they could avoid making potential candidates laugh at them.

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__loam  5 months ago

Founding engineer is the biggest ripoff in tech.

  • kstrauser  5 months ago

    But... but... they already did the hard part of coming up with the idea! All you have to do is code it.

  • steve_adams_86  5 months ago

    Literally the worst experience of my life. I don’t even mention it on my resume or LinkedIn or anything. I suppose it was a success and the product is still doing fine. I just never want to do that again unless it’s for myself.