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I completely understand your point and sympathize with employees who are working near minimum wage and don't have much of a choice, but you are way off the mark here.

I'm pretty sure Stripe SWEs are, on average, some of the highest paid employees on the planet. It's entirely their prerogative if they choose to sacrifice their health for it. They have options to leave if they wanted to.

A senior eng who joined Stripe on 2015 would make 3-5m USD per year.

I don't think they would complain that their bosses become billionaires.

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Levels.fyi

If you joined Stripe in 2019, Stripe is ~20b.

A senior eng gets 200k in cash and 250k in stock per year.

Today Stripe valuation is 79b.

This eng would earn 1.2m per year.

Now imagine you joined Stripe in 2015 where Stripe was worth ~5b.

I have a few friends joining stripe at that time, and that's where 3-5m per year comes from.

yeah right, we're not talking about a barista here, these devs were making good money