wow, interesting. Why does it only apply to companies with more than 15 people? Is it the idea that you're more likely to have family help (and only family being willing to help) when your company (more small business than traditional startup) is this small?
3 of my friends got this, all at Facebook. Not to say this is standard, but this is not outlier. Some hedge funds pay more.
AFAIK only Facebook gives 100k signing, and it's usually for returning interns and after negotiation with competing offers (usually other FANG or hedge fund offers).
Could they dilute people like that? From 5% to 0.5%? That dilutes everyone else as well though, right (I guess the new shares can be given to the founders so they aren't diluted).
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Are you seriously saying Stanford doesn't have the same cache as Berkeley, MIT, or CMU in CS because you couldn't name something invented from Stanford?
How about number of Turing laureates? Stanford has the most for alumni + faculty, and comes second if you only count alumni (to Berkeley), and comes second if you just count long-term faculty (to MIT), and comes first for short-term faculty.[0]
the SAT of the 70s were much more of an IQ test than now. I'd be surprised if Kaplan prep could raise more than 20 or 30 points on average.
Also, having used Kaplan's prep material... They're pretty bad. But that was in the early 2010s for myself so they might have fallen in quality.