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Re:In Oakland, a Sign of Some Very High Times by mahyarm on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @02:55AM (#8486244)
Maybe at an unfunded startup. But at a funded startup, you should be expecting wages a little bit higher than bigcorp wages, due to the risk profile.
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Re:In Oakland, a Sign of Some Very High Times by dasil003 on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:21AM (#8486415)
Where's the risk if you're getting paid above market? Time was people joined a startup in order to make their equity valuable. If all these funded startups are paying above market a large number of potentially viable ones will go belly up in an implosion of Roaring Teens opulent overspending.
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Re:In Oakland, a Sign of Some Very High Times by hueving on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @07:07AM (#8486781)
The risk is that you don't get the bonuses and stock grants that you would at a big corporation.
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