I'm replying to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1459940
Why do you work at a startup then? You could make so much more money at a bigger and more established company.
Why do you work at a startup then? You could make so much more money at a bigger and more established company.
I would always encourage someone being offered 3x their salary to take that. You'd be stupid not to take that, almost everything else being equal.
I'm talking about the people who see a $10K difference and think it's material in the scheme of things. If you're only focus is money, then fine, an extra $833 before taxes per month might move the needle. For the vast majority of people, that's not a sound way to make decisions on where you spend the majority of your time.
ps, no clue why news.yc won't let me reply this deep in the thread, some limit or something. Maybe because I'm OP.
$833 * 12 is almost $10K a year, it isn't trivial, especially if you have student loan payments to make. I just think all web startups offer about the same thing these days: free beverages! a web site! work 10 hours a day and LOVE IT! we are cool guys with t-shirts! we all work packed into a rented loft in soma! .25% of the company! you can use emacs or vi, we don't care! pick your tools! experience! foosball! you aren't working at microsoft!
It all sort of merges together. So the only thing you can really compete with is the coolness of your project and the pay. If people are choosing higher pay elsewhere, maybe your project isn't really that cool.