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Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by bspn on Saturday June 17, 2017 @09:57AM (#14575912)
> However, they recently announced that the July 1 salary review that everyone was promised will be deferred.

The company is obviously facing a cash crunch, but to me this is the key bit and why I would start shopping my resume if I were in your shoes. Management will have known about the cash crunch or should at least have anticipated it was a possibility for a while now, and should not have set expectations that they were unlikely to meet. The rest of the actions look like prudent cost-cutting measures, but if you can't trust that management will honor their promises today what guarantees do you have that they will do so in the future?

As a non-founder (i.e. very low equity upside), it's not for you to make compromises to keep their high-upside baby alive. Put your own interests first and find an employer that doesn't require you to subsidize their growth.

Also, if I had a dollar for every time a founder has told me that funding is coming in "months, if not weeks" .... well, you can guess the rest.

Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by confluence on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:02AM (#14575935)
Key aspect of becoming a manager is making promises you may or may not keep. They cost you nothing, and when they come due it's the employees who suffer.
Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by tedmiston on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:23AM (#14576007)
A good manager manages expectations when reality changes.
Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by confluence on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:25AM (#14576012)
A great manager doesn't make promises he can't keep.
Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by flyinglizard on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:30AM (#14576034)
Sometimes, a great manager needs to speculate and do things at uncertainty and risk, while motivating their subordinates. They are clearly working to save the company in OPs case.
Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by confluence on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:35AM (#14576056)
Ah yes, with a late June notification.

Maybe communicate earlier hmmm?

That would be better management rather than hold my beer I'll probably close this round while I risk the livelihoods and futures of my rank and file.

Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by tedmiston on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:43PM (#14588289)
But alas, communicating earlier is when things have the most uncertainty. I have had great managers that set expectations around how much uncertainty and change is built-in to what they're communicating, but in general, the earlier they share something, the more likely it is to not be certain yet, still it's often useful information to have.

(I'm only speaking in general, not specific to this situation.)

Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by a3n on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:53AM (#14576138)
But are the people in question really managers, or just harvesters of stock options?
Re:Ask HN: Stay or Leave? SoundCloud has deferred salary rev... by hashkb on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:31AM (#14576035)
...to employees who will actually quit. Ethical managers never do it, great managers (measured from above of course) always do, strategically.