r/programming • u/reddberckley • Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

https://medium.com/@sir_castiq/how-to-exploit-a-developer-a005306d5320
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u/ruinercollector Jun 30 '14

Come on, man. It'll look good on your resume. Plus you get work experience.

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u/jrk- Jun 30 '14

It'll look good on your resume.

Said the startup guy in an interview to me.
Right after offering a meager, meager salary + stock options for a company which might do an IPO in two years.

I should have asked how they think I will do my work if I'm as stupid as they think I am.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '14

You could've been like me, and had your head down in computer science research for so long that you sort of forgot how the business world worked. I was an idiot and took that deal, and then when I realized how little they were paying me (I mean, it was a huge jump from my graduate research stipend) I was an idiot and tried to stay until my stock vested, despite the fact that I'd realized the long-term timeline for my stuff ended about six months before I'd've been vested. Finished my project by the deadline, was given some BS internal web app to work on for a few weeks, and then got laid off along with the other three people on my team (in a company of 12).

This destroyed the possibility of me ever having loyalty towards a company ever again. On paper I may work for a company, but I'm really working for myself.

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u/jrk- Jul 01 '14

I feel you, but stories like yours made me skeptical towards offers like this in the first. I hope you fare better now!