That's crazy to me because I had the exact opposite experience. I went in hoping for a certain amount, and they offered me knowing full well what I was hoping for, 20,000 more. Plus all the other benefits like video games and dogs at work. In fact I don't think I've ever had a bad experience with startups except that your job is essentially temporary cuz they will either close or sell

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or they knew they weren't going to last more than 1 year, so why not spend all that tasty VC money?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

Would be nice if true, but I guess those "extra" money would most commonly stay in tops' pockets

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

That or dumb money is just dumb, and if the cost of money is free, you can just guess at things that might work with thousands of monkeys hitting typewriters.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hah I was about to say that only bad part of startups that I’ve had was that you weren’t sure if you’d have a job six months from now. I probably just got lucky and jumped on board during the “throw cash at everything phase”

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

I worked at a tree farm in my teens and honestly if I could still do that making what I make now I would be all over that. Always outside, in great shape, got to run heavy machinery, it was great.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You'll just turn into this.