thrwawyFrtco675 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are the FAANG tech support forums often useless?
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thrwawyFrtco675 | 9 years ago | on: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
Why? I don't think it is surprising. Throwaway account, but when I interviewed at FB and Apple I got offers for over $1m/4yr total comp, which is $250k/yr. Is Let's Encrypt doing less valuable work? Should the employees voluntarily give up compensation for some reason?
My previous startup job was similar in salary to the FB offer, though without the guaranteed RSUs (>300k/4yr).
When I look at the public salary data it seems low
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As an employee I used to help out on the forums, giving non-PR helpful answers.
Then someone extremely angry about a semi-related issue took one of my posts out of context and emailed the executive team, using my truthful post as supposed evidence of the company's wrongdoing against its customers.
It didn't hurt my career and I didn't even get in trouble... but that is not the kind of attention you want to get from your SVP.
I don't post in the forums anymore. There are way too many angry people who will weaponize anything you say against you. Too many journalists looking for a story. Too many YouTubers looking for the next clickbait video. Not worth the risk.