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That’s 12000 per year so in the big picture it’s really not much.

We actually got a bigger bonus as part of the acquisition, just not technically stock options. My total comp after the take-over is roughly 120k (pretax).

For my situation , it was pretty amazing. I'm not on the standard path of CS degree + working at FAANG. I'm a DIY-er , self taught. Given where I am now, 23 year old self would be fucking amazed. We built and sold a digital company from nothing to some mega corporate suit bros worth billions of dollars!

If it's additionally to their regular compensation?

Not if they took a 13k/year pay cut to get it. Options are usually "instead of" not "in addition to" salary.

I started off as a wee-lad fresh out of college (degree in science not computer programming) so was on a 50k/yr salary and i got options too.

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