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Hi, I am likely looking to leave (within the next few weeks) the startup I am currently working for, and go to one of the top 4 for several reasons. (Un)fortunately, the startup appreciated considerably since I joined 3…

Hi I was lucky enough to pass the standard software engineer interview with 3 of the top SV tech companies (think Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Amazon). I have about 7 years of experience (some titles held: Software…

Hi I was lucky enough to pass the standard software engineer interview with 3 of the top SV tech companies (think Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Amazon). I have about 7 years of experience (some titles held: Software…

Hello HN I'm a "typical" software engineer working as a team lead in SF for a small startup. Reading a few threads on salaries, it seems the average compensation in the area for software engineers (employees, including…

Hello HN and happy Sunday, I joined a startup two years ago as the very first non-founding engineer (right after the seed round of about 1.5M). I took a salary cut for a bit less than 2% of the company (ISOs with the…

In my 8 year professional career as a software developer I worked in a big corp, a late stage startup and a very early stage startup. In all the teams I worked with I always found a good amount of members (senior and…

Hi I was revisiting my personal list of "passive income" ideas, and I found a problem that I could solve by creating a very small SaaS product. In my full time job I'm a core backend developer and devop so I'm pretty…

Hello, A bit less than 2 years ago I joined a software startup in SV as one of the very first employees, right after their seed round. At that time, I got ISOs for ~2% of the equity pool. This amounts to about 100000…

Howdy I joined a startup ~2 years ago as employee #2 (software engineer), and thus I've had the responsibility of essentially building every technical aspect of the company from the ground up, which I loved. Now, the…