[khazhou]

If you go in to a startup and say "I'll take 15K a year w/no benefits" you'll get a flat-out NO. That big exit-event equity is not for engineers. It's for founders.

[vecter]

That depends entirely on the stage of the company. If you're one of the first few employees, that would make complete sense.

If the last priced round made that 1% worth $20M on paper, then that's unreasonable.