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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by user5994461 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:13PM (#13430333)
You divide 100k by 3 to account for the risk, and by 4 again to account for the vesting schedule (usually 4 years).

The shares are worth at most 8k in salary, that is if they're somewhat liquid. (which they are definitely not for startup and far away IPO).

If you took a $20k drop in salary for that, you've been not only screwing yourself at this job but also for ALL your future jobs, because future companies will try to downplay you based on your current salary.

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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by falsedan on Thursday January 19, 2017 @07:14PM (#13440686)
If a company asks for your current salary, say "I'm sorry but I'm restricted as to who I can share that information with".

If they ask who made that restriction, link to this post.

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