londonymous
So if the company raised money at $10MM and you're being offered 0.5% equity, then treat it as a $50,000 bonus that you get for being a loyal employee over the vesting period.
I'm confused about what this is offering. If it's for existing CS majors, surely by definition if you're among "brightest", you wouldn't forgo the $5-10k/mo internships available [1] or generous starting salaries you can get right out the door, and instead pay $30k.
[1] https://twitter.com/tzhongg/status/536565474041937921/photo/...
>Domestic and carer responsibilities are unevenly distributed, which means women are more likely to be too busy to attend hackathons than men are.
Domestic responsibilities are unevenly distributed. This is bad. It has nothing to do with Hackathons.
>Attending a weekend-long event means massively rearranging my life.
Has this guy never been on holiday?
>if I spend two long days in poor lighting and poor ventilation, sitting hunched over my laptop at a meeting table in an uncomfortable chair, eating pretty average catering food or pizza [...] I feel like crap.
If that's an issue, bring your own food. Drink more water.
After starting out doing Ruby on Rails, I moved to backend development focusing on Devops/PaaS — not super-niche but definitely more in-demand than Ruby on Rails, which that's one of the reasons I switched (as well as enjoying it more). Furthermore it's has the advantage of being a Hot New Thing™, which means you gain seniority much faster — in Ruby on Rails it might take 4-5 years to be considered 'senior'. In a much newer technology (like Angular for example), you might only need a year.