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Anonymously Post/Compare Startup Salary & Equity Offers

119 pointsby philfreoover 14 years ago

18 comments

jacquesmover 14 years ago
Don't do this without very good guarantees that your data is not going to be tied to your identity somehow, you could be a in a lot of hot water for disclosing this stuff.<p>Sorry to rain on the parade but this is <i>not</i> a good idea.<p>If you do decide to go through with it use a proxy and a throwaway email address.<p>downmodders: you're clueless.
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cletusover 14 years ago
This information would be valuable. Unfortunately, getting such information <i>reliably</i> is incredibly difficult.<p>If life has taught me nothing else it's that people lie about their incomes <i>even anonymously</i>. Plus you have a selection bias to deal with anyway.<p>Oh and email validation is pretty meaningless.
rdlover 14 years ago
An extension of this which would be even more socially beneficial would be "graduate of x degree program and y university job offer stats"; ideally with some kind of actually trusted third party going over legitimate offer letters.<p>This data could be blinded at the level of industry or role (and thus not commercially sensitive to any employer), and then published to prospective students; knowing that Bentley College majors in Communications are offered $20-40k while Stanford CS graduates are offered $70-140k would be exceptionally useful to everyone, much more so than the 5-year graduation rates which I think universities taking certain federal financial aid programs are required to disclose.
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wyboover 14 years ago
I don't know if requiring people to enter &#38; verify their e-mail address is such a good idea for anonymity... (it is for data quality).
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yannickmaheover 14 years ago
I'm currently negotiating for a director level post... This confirms what I thought : way too low !<p>I'll wait for more data, but this is a great help for me !
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rdlover 14 years ago
We have TheFunded for VC/Angel investors, stuff like Glassdoor and this for compensation, and CPM/traffic/etc. are fairly well established through compete and other sources, and it would be great to see a few more anonymous data pools: 1) Non-employee costs (offices in SoMA and PA/MV, insurance, anything sold in a non-transparent market) 2) Sales cycles and cash to cash time (how long does it take for initial interest to become cash in the bank account for various types of product and market)
elbrodeurover 14 years ago
I'm a little suspicious of this dataset.<p>$122k + 3.5% for a mid level product manager who joined Q1, 2011 at (presumably) Groupon?<p>$320k + 1.5% for a C-level bizdev who joined Q1, 2011 at Groupon?<p>5% of equity to late entry employees at a company where, presumably, first employees have been diluted into sub .5% ranges seems not just ridiculous, but impossible. I mean, they just closed a series G for crying out loud -- they don't have 5% to throw at new employees.<p>Unless of course there are other group buying startups in Chicago with a valuation greater than $10bn that I haven't heard of.
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wazooxover 14 years ago
It may be pretty hard to compare US and foreign offers. For instance, in France, you'd be earning 36000 euros in cash --what's landing on your account --, however it would actually be nearly 48000 euros with charges (that's what you're taxed for): social security, retirement, etc. Then the company will actually pay some 20000 more euros in other salary charges. That means that 36000 euros in cash in France translate to (36000 (cash) + 32000 (charges)) * 1.30 = about US$ 90000 ...
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brown9-2over 14 years ago
As others have said, it's not "compleetely anonymous" if you are supplying an email address.
paradox95over 14 years ago
Would be nice if the column headers could act as filters rather than just sortable. I wanna see just postings in SF Bay Area, Pre-Rev, and Engineering. I don't care about all the other stuff.
rdlover 14 years ago
For data quality, you should probably provide definition by example for the level (director vs. Vp vs. Senior can be ambiguous in early stages)
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leppieover 14 years ago
Does 'Engineering' imply software developers too, or is there just no software development in these startups?
chucknthemover 14 years ago
It'll be interesting to see when the startup was founded too, but I guess that would make it less anonymous
rwhitmanover 14 years ago
Hmm... Industry = "Group Buying", Location = "Chicago", Valuation = "&#62;$10B"<p>I'd say Groupon pays pretty darn well, huh?
kenkyhuangover 14 years ago
bug report: clicking 51-100 employees doesn't filter correctly; filters list on 1-10 instead
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bluekite2000over 14 years ago
why do you need to supply an email? Is that even necessary? Most people will fake it anyway
noliteover 14 years ago
it would be nice if they had fields for the hire number (1st employee, 2nd, etc..)
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sktrdieover 14 years ago
What about spammers?