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Comment by kstrauser

10 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.

Founding engineer is the biggest ripoff in tech.

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