Yeah maybe if my employer has the ambition to pay.
Am I working hard at Meta? You bet I am.
For median SWE salary and 0.001% in “options” that will likely never have a liquidity opportunity? I’m not so sure…
Am I working hard at Meta? You bet I am.
For median SWE salary and 0.001% in “options” that will likely never have a liquidity opportunity? I’m not so sure…
Again, depends on whether your product has that much upside. Many products don’t. But as an example: German car makers have long ignored that great software engineers have a vastly bigger impact in a team than great mechanical engineers. As a result, they for a long time failed to build great software engineering orgs.
Volkswagen gave in eventually and is now licensing from Rivian. Their failure was caused by a structural problem of not seeing how SW works at scale, and how that should influence your hiring.