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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by baobabKoodaa on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:26PM (#29615942)
This is false. If you immediately exchanged your cash to stock (as I specified in the post that you are replying to) then 3 years from now your "cash" option is worth exactly the same as your "cash + stock" option.
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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by pb7 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:25PM (#29619096)
No one is giving you 4 years of paychecks on day 1. But they do grant 4 years of equity that is appreciating while you’re waiting for it to vest. That’s the difference. Cash is worse.
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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job by rgcase on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:21PM (#29619055)
This is wrong. It would be true if you received all the cash in a lump sum as soon as you're hired, and you used it to buy stock, but if your cash "vests" in the same way as equity typically does then you'd lose out on the opportunity for it to appreciate before vesting like shares can.
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