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Re:Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, I... by hkmurakami on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @05:11PM (#10082226)
Basically "Engineer hire #1" (or similar) that was on board super early but wasn't part of the founding team when the team itself was formed.

I am guessing the distinction is to delineate the fact that the engineer did not join 1+ year from company founding, which is often the case for Engineer #1.

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Re:Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, I... by optimusclimb on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @06:03PM (#10082524)
So basically founder minus the shares?
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Re:Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, I... by hkmurakami on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @10:56PM (#10083471)
Well in the case I saw it was founder minus the shares plus quite good pay.
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Re:Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, I... by x0x0 on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @06:53PM (#10082738)
and not promoted to direng/cto or (s)he would have use that title, though maybe the company has a policy of not promoting interally
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