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Re:When You Should Quit a Startup Job by danso on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:03PM (#9572346)
> I wish that more startups treated jobs as tours of duty.

Is that even feasible for startups? I guess it depends on size and stage, but I imagine most startups don't have their mission and product to a solidified-enough stage where they can think in year-long phases...or to even have more than one major project in which a year-long engineering tour is possible.

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Re:When You Should Quit a Startup Job by justonepost on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:10PM (#9572395)
No, it's definitely not feasible for a startup. Contracts are very common in a lot of jobs, but the friction they generate don't make sense in a startup. That's why you get all that startup equity, to deal with that risk.
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Re:When You Should Quit a Startup Job by bkeroack on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:12PM (#9572416)
"[A]ll that startup equity" for normal employees is typically sub 0.1%.
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