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I don't think they are capable of attracting better talent at this point. Come to think of it, I'm surprised they ever were able to attract any serious talent at all.

I still remember a highly respected veteran industry executive talking to my entrepreneurship class in 2010 about how he couldn't bring himself to work for Zuck despite a strong offer on the table, and the joke he made about missing out on millions in stock options. This person today continues to lead entire businesses at one of the leading companies.

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I’m not saying I’m a serious talent, but I’d sell my soul for the right price. Assume many others would do too.

I certainly wouldn't. And I assume many others wouldn't either.

There's plenty of jobs that offer just fine livings in relatively neutral ground areas. I guess they certainly have their workforce, so there's plenty of people who either don't care, or don't think it's wrong.

I met a youtube engineer who thought privacy was dead anyways, so what was the point?

Weird frame of mind for me.

Heck it's probably a lower number than most people think too. Every always says 1 million or 10 million or something super ridiculous, but ~$500K/yr is life changing for most people and when you're looking at that over say ten years... you would be crazy to not sell out.

But you can make that ~500k/yr at a half dozen (at least!) other companies without compromising yourself and selling out. I think FB has a reputation as paying at or above the market max. It's not like the other FANGs or unicorns are slouches in the comp department.

They are not paying most of their engineers close to 500k/yr.

$500k a year in Palo Alto is not a lot of money. I don't think you could even buy a standard family house earning that much there.

Not true at all. Source, earned less than that much, bought a house in MV in the last 1.5 years.

>>you would be crazy to not sell out

Its not exactly sell out. What exactly are you doing writing code at other companies any way? Writing code for Mahatma Gandhi?

If it's not a sell out, how can it be "selling ones soul for the right price"?

Exactly, I wouldn't even calling working for fb selling my soul.

That sounds terribly sad.

It's easy to have principles when they're not being put to the test.

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