Why your total comp number is a fiction.
Adding unvested equity, a signing bonus you might not get, and a benefits estimate to your base salary and calling it "total comp" is a trick. Here's how to make the comparison honest.
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Adding unvested equity, a signing bonus you might not get, and a benefits estimate to your base salary and calling it "total comp" is a trick. Here's how to make the comparison honest.
Most candidates save questions for the end. The ones that get offers ask them in the middle. Here are the three questions that tell you more about a company than a month of research.
Retention at one year is a lagging signal for a matching decision made a year prior. Here's what it tells you, what it doesn't, and how to use it to evaluate your hiring process.
At a 20-person startup it's the second engineer. At a 2,000-person company it's a principal with scope over three teams. Applying without knowing which one you're interviewing for is the most common mistake senior engineers make.
Most engineers accept the first number because they don't know what to say. We've helped close 400+ offers. This is what works.
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