Re:We need to rethink employee compensation
by ryandrake on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:18PM
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This seems like good advice. There's definitely a "valley" where low (but not "Founder-low") employee numbers get all the risk and disproportional reward. But, I wonder, really how much someone hired at Google, Twitter or Facebook a couple of years before IPO _really_ got. We're still probably talking "nice bonus" money rather than "life changing windfall" money. And, for "nice bonus" money, it makes more sense to go for the security of a public BigCorp.
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Re:We need to rethink employee compensation
by harryh on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:23PM
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If you were at Google as a mid level engineer in 2002 (2 years before the IPO) you DEFINITELY made life changing windfall money. DEFINITELY. Take whatever guess you seem have in your head and multiply it by 10. Probably more than that.
(I started at Google in 2004 and did pretty well.)