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Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive by ryanisnan on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:19AM (#32867271)
If I'm an employee earning equity vs cash, I damn well want to make sure my incentives are aligned with the companies, e.g. the value increasing. This seems a bit perverse.
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Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive by JAlexoid on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:48AM (#32867769)
The best way to increase stock value in short/mid term - cut costs... (aka your salary/position)

Your incentives never align with any of the publicly traded major tech companies.

Small startups - yes, you have more leeway. Google, Facebook, Apple - yeah, no... outside of top management, your fixes to their mapping application have sweet all to do with stock value.

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Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive by ryanisnan on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:23PM (#32880564)
Great point! As a non FAANG employee, I am mostly considering the startup landscape, where I do expect my contributions to directly correlate to share value.
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