> All you have to do is decide whether the salary is high enough; the rest is irrelevant.

You mean feign interest in the company for two years longer than every VC that passed them over?

I'm being cynical, but I am baffled how Silicon Valley companies think they are going to be privileged enough to hire engineers that are actually interested in their company's ambiguous mission, amongst the subset of engineers randomly on the market at any given time

How many VCs weren't interested again?