Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
by rco8786 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:24PM
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We can talk about normal expectations without having to explicitly state that black swan events can happen. If you took a stance of “I’m not going to take any pay in equity because I saw what happened in 2001” you would have left millions of dollars on the table over the last 20 years.
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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
by intuitionist on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:08PM
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Stocks underperforming cash for three years is hardly a black swan event; it happens in about a fifth of 3-year periods.
Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
by rco8786 on Monday December 20, 2021 @04:36PM
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I’m clearly talking about the early 00 market crash as the black swan. Some depreciation is expected to happen sometimes. Obviously.
Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
by TheCoelacanth on Sunday December 19, 2021 @09:17PM
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Underperforming cash is very different than underperforming cash by 60%.
Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
by JohnHaugeland on Sunday December 19, 2021 @01:47PM
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I think that once you start looking for hard evidence on software company stocks, you're in for a learning experience.
Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job
by rco8786 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @02:12PM
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? I’ve been in this industry for…a while. I watched people around me packing up their cubicles in 2001. What is it that you think I am missing? Genuine question because I’m not sure how to interpret your comment at all. Tech stocks have had strong growth as a sector for about 2 decades. Even if they hadn’t, even if they had been flat for 20 years, companies are still paying out $100k+ a year in equity (in addition to base salary).