My take away is that employers are simply offering less equity.
In my experience when a company talks about performance bonuses it's just a way to bait you into working super hard and then somehow they find a way to rate your performance as "average" with no way to know if that's fair or not.
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In my experience when a company talks about performance bonuses it's just a way to bait you into working super hard and then somehow they find a way to rate your performance as "average" with no way to know if that's fair or not.