You're not a founder. You get like 0.1% equity but you take on almost the same level of risks as founders financially and career wise, and have the same awful WLB. Blind community, prove I'm wrong.
lol, old news
Common sense
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Yeah I didnt realize how bad startups suck until I did one for a bit. Everyone is expected to work insane hours to make the ceo and his founder buddies plus VC capital guys richer. Itās a shit show all around. Go work for a real company, especially if you donāt need a visa. Either that or take an insane comp for the work at startup because you will need it to compensate for hours.
Also, water wet.
And sky blue
Water is not wet, but this take is not hot
If you go for titles, itās dumb to go for that one. That being said thereās plenty of good other reasons to go for very early startup engineer, depending on the startup and depending on where in your career you are.
Going for the title is almost always a bad idea (unless the startup really makes it big). I see plenty of people who were Staff/Principal/Dir/sr. Dir elsewhere come to Meta as Ic5/6/M1...
I work in series C now, but the only way I would go lower than that is if Iām the founder.
Whats your title at the series C? Why did you choose to join that from Meta?
Mostly agree, but it can be a fast track to executive positions if that's your career goal, assuming the startup grows and takes off.
this is the truth, its better to be founder than founding engineer
I got offered a role as founding engineer but then 4 months later got PIP'd. They ruined me being on a F1 visa
What happened after, are you in a good spot now?
No, back in India. Couldn't find another job within 90 days.
This is not a hot take Thereās a reason why startups struggle to find talent
Yeah it's weird that they don't just pony up more equity If you're only hiring like 3-5 people for the first 2-3 years, they're taking on far more risk, like don't make them second class citizens When I was in a role like that I was constantly calculating "is it worth it", and would always prepare to jump ship when things got rough If they had given me an extra 60% equity (small in the scheme of things, ultimately totally paper money) it would have been much easier to hang on, but the CEO was stingy
So you wanted 60.1% equity?