- Set your own hours.
- Four day work weeks.
- Part time roles.
- Work for both FANGMA and a startup [1]
- Sabbaticals.
[1] (Startup could be flexible so there's no overlap in meetings/oncall. Also makes it super easy to switch jobs while still getting paid from one of the two roles.)
Absolutely incredible.
Apparently other people complain that he doesn't really do anything the vast majority of the time, and doesn't do anything coworkers ask them to do that's part of the job description for other salespeople, and the execs won't do anything about it (and apparently are very scared of him leaving since they think he'll take all those clients with him).
...which I agree with the execs not doing anything, by the way. That revenue is way more important than making sure that employee is "putting in a solid 8 hour work day" or "being a team player".
Software engineers get some slack from the business but not that much slack. If I could have a few short conversations a year with the computer and it spat out software that generated millions in revenue I absolutely would, but no, I have to do the research and design and development to make sure the software does what it needs to do. And then it helps generate millions of dollars, of which I get a comparatively tiny fraction compared to what I bet that salesperson gets.
Most of us are still getting a raw deal compared to salespeople (well, effective salespeople, at least).
Supply and demand is the only force here, software engineers aren’t special.
I've mentioned part time roles in another comment and really don't see that being feasible.
Working for two companies simultaneously gets into some tricky IP and non-compete situations (that are even enforceable in California - see Techno Lite, Inc. v. Emcod, LLC).