[mrep]

From your other comment, you pay $400-700k for L4-L6.

Since your company is private what percent of that is liquid (cash or RSUs you can immediately sell for cash). Also, what locations are you hiring in?

Cause, if you are asking me to move to the outrageous housing market that is the bay area only to make half my money in shitty stock options that might not evaluate to anything, than I think I found your problem.

[m00x]

SF/Seattle/Chicago

We pay $400k base + bonus for L6, but around $270k for L4

RSUs bump that to $400k on the low end for L4 and $700k for L6.

We don't pay FAANG level for sure, but the bar is lower.

[mrep]

That's pretty good. Can you liquidate those RSUs for cash? If so I'd be interested in possibly applying as I'm in Chicago where housing isn't outrageous. If not it could still be tempting depending on the company and what I think of it.