Reddit debates whether the loyalty question is sincere or hollow
5 Nov 1 6:00 PM · 12d ago · 2 posts · 9 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 5
Commenters split between viewing the question as a reasonable culture screen and mocking it as hypocritical corporate messaging, with others noting that 'mission-driven' hires still received large salaries and RSUs.
“No they were looking for people willing to take less guaranteed compensation to work on a mission.”
HustlinInTheHall, Reddit commenter · reddit ↗
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I think it could be an actual scenario. Lets say the authors/musicians who are suing Anthropic win, and get a $2T judgment. The company would go bankrupt, existing shares would be wiped out, but everyone there outside of the C suite would still have jobs and be highly compensated by the new owners (the people whose stuff they stole to train their…
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No they were looking for people willing to take less guaranteed compensation to work on a mission. The people there still made a bunch of money in base salary (probably 250k+) and they've had liquidity events along the way. But a principal engineer at Anthropic making 250k + 300k in RSUs they can't sell can also go get 700k from Meta, so there is…
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And it's a pretty fair question imo. Companies don't want people focused on money (for themselves), the honest ones want people dedicated to the company, the ones that are full of themselves want people dedicated to the "mission". Also, if you're too clueless to figure out that there's a right and wrong answer for that question, then I don't think…
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AI companies are expanding so quickly though, right now the main barrier is they're all in SF and they want people in the office or at least hybrid. There are some new york offices now and those people will do really well though, there are very few companies that will pay as well as these AI leaders, especially since their revenue is 5-6M+ per…
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appreciate it. not getting my hopes too high as everybody is trying to get there. to me “life changing” money isnt really about getting enough to retire in a few years. it’s more like “i’ll be able to purchase a home in a neighborhood with good public schools”. The pay for my position is equal to a staff swe at my current company - a level i’d…
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When I worked at Google which has been public for quite some time I was getting six figures in stock annual so I wouldn’t exactly say they wouldn’t be getting much at all. Sure you won’t get the rise that comes from being an employee from startup through IPO but you’re still netting big money on an offer no matter what.
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Cool. So Anthropic is pathological unbalanced. I'll act like a MAGA grifter "daddy Anthropic, i will still love you forever and something mission something as I want to make my masters and managers at the company lots of money please" For those in the back, lie, because that's what they want.
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If you’re already contingency planning on your stock going to zero, chances are you probably shouldn’t be filing for an IPO
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