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Comment by edot | Hacker News Reader

I mean, for 0.15-0.20% and a top end salary of $200k living in SF that sounds like a great opportunity!

Don’t get me wrong, $200k is a lot of money, but it’s not a top end tech salary in SF.

It’s quite poor given that you don’t get to have a life outside of work, too. I’d start to think that sounds great if it was a 4 day work week, but 7… Bizarre.

Kills me when people don't internally adjust a stated annual salary against a workweek that is almost assuredly brutally higher than a standard 9-5. Between the "grinder mindset," the on-site traveling, etc. you're probably easily pushing 60 hours a week.

A standard 200k full-time job clocks in at around $96 / hour. This job is more like $64 / hour.

200k in SF with CA income taxes and SF cost of living is not that much at all. It's low enough that "No, you can't ever hope to afford to buy a home or get a mortgage in the city of your legal residence" is a flat out fact.

Good news / bad news: employees are also expected to "co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses" (i.e. corporate frat house).

Not quite sure how they get "teams of 20" living in those houses with a total company size of 15, though.

Maybe they have some ex US Navy submariners that have introduced the concept of hot bunking.

Are you serious? That's not much to be able to live there. And for the top end no less?

Yeah, it's not much for SF.

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