[rl3]

>My other friend who is senior engineer with 5 year experience is compensated around 500k/year.

>If you're really good, you can easily negotiate up to 400k/year real money(cash + stocks).

It's funny how early stage startups talk of hiring "the best" and most can't even come close to affording that level of compensation.

[well_negotiator]

Early stage startups are making a joke out of engineers by pitching the bro-culture and talking about freedom and 10X- 100X.

And yeah, with a big hype from VCs and investors tweeting about startupX, Y, Z, engineers get fooled and join a startup and work for 4 years and later figure out it was a bad idea.

It's a very bad idea to join a startup for money unless you know the founders really well who have a track record of selling themselves to Google/Facebook/Oracle/MSFT.