[ipaddr]

You didn't say you were giving away a lottery ticket for open source. How much of the 350 is salary?

Somewhere between 170 and 225 is my guess. Still a lot of money but after taxes it's nowhere near retirement after 4 years. The stock could be worth something or nothing.. unless they are public or liquid I would discount that amount by 90%.

[coconutbrain]

> You didn't say you were giving away a lottery ticket for open source

You call this a lottery ticket? My open-source work is the reason they were considering me in the first place!

Instead of getting opportunities, let them establish a monopoly over my time? No, thanks

> after taxes it's nowhere near retirement after 4 years

Correct, if you take the taxes into account there's more grind for what's worth

Those stock options are effectively $0, but based on the company's crazy valuation, sure they might be calculated as that much

[Minor49er]

That salary is roughly $900,000, post-tax. If you couldn't retire off of that today, let alone use that money to live comfortably for a substantial amount of time, then I simply don't know what to tell you