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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by damnfinecoffee on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:51AM (#13427799)
By "low level software engineers" do you mean low level in the sense of relatively low experience or low level in the sense of working on embedded systems etc?
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by delecti on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @12:38PM (#13428327)
They mentioned Uber/FB/Google, none of whom are really in the embedded systems game (Google maybe to a lesser extent).
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by maverick_iceman on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @02:00PM (#13429220)
As in entry level.
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by damnfinecoffee on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @02:44PM (#13429639)
Where are you living where entry level software engineer salaries are north of 200k? I'm in the bay area and base salaries for software engineering with a bachelor's degree range from 90-115k from what I've seen (generally with some stock options and bonus potential added on top but I've never met anyone who's come even close to 200k starting out)
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by askafriend on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:06PM (#13430276)
He's talking about total comp, not just base salary. If you're looking at total comp, there's many many late stage unicorns and large public companies that have comp packages north of $200k for entry level engineers straight out of college. I've seen comp packages for many of these companies.
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by stale2002 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:00PM (#13429762)
He's talking about Google and Uber. Those definitely pay around that much.
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by xyzzy_plugh on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:26PM (#13429983)
In total compensation, sure. But base salary that high is unlikely. Consider also that Uber isn't public, so the non-salary comp isn't worth anything yet.
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