I'm sorry but... what? you turned down a 200k salary?

(a) I was young(er), (b) I recall other highly-funded startups failing at the time, (c) at the time the whole thing just sounded laughable/sketchy.

Not to mention I was on a visa...

200k is fairly normal if not low for a senior backed role in SF. Especially considering that any stock options you got would end up being worthless.

I feel like you can quote just about arbitrarily high number for an SF engineer salary and someone will come out of the woodwork to tell you that it's actually low.

"senior" is overused, in reality a junior-senior can easily make 150k base, a senior-senior can make 250k base. And we're not even talking about netflix.

Were you offered any stock/options? How much would that worth now? (If you don't mind sharing..)

Giphy was valued at 600M in 2016 according to The Information, so the equity might not be worth much.

Their series D was in 2016, so the options would probably be underwater.

I can't remember tbh this was 4 years ago.

200k salary or total comp?

four years is a decent chunk of time im sure youve done fine since then dont beat yourself up over it - most startups arent really worth joining for the upside potential at IPO or acquisition anyway.

Be glad. You do not want to be associated with Facebook.

Facebook has a lot of amazing engineers and developer tools, and many of them have great reputations in the industry. I know a lot of people working at Facebook in a variety of roles and they are all happy and proud of the work they do.

You're trying to make it sound like it'll put a black mark on your resume or something.

yeah but the pay is good and the share package would have been stella.