Who offers THAT kind of money for what I do?!?
I’m assuming that the recruiter who called me today has read or is reading this blog. It is about the only way I can figure she knew to call me directly at office at Microsoft rather than calling the number listed on my resume or my linkdin profile. Or maybe she saw my facebook profile as well. I don’t know. Either way it caught me off guard.
But what I really want to know is who offers $170k per year for a build engineer? I make a good amount of money, but not that much. But here are the reasons I said I wasn’t interested.
1. I just started back working with a team of people who I not only have worked extremely well in the past, but are close friends as well. I made a commitment to them and I cannot walk away from that. I really enjoy where I am at. Not just the money but the people.
2. When someone says “We are building the next Google Killer”, I believe it. I also believe the odds are as good as all other “Google Killers”. In otherwords, next to none. Most likely they will follow the same path as all others before you.
3. The fact that you are willing to pay nearly twice the industry standard for someone with my experience tells me that as a startup you are being extremely irresponsible with any venture capital. How much are software engineers being paid? What about managers? How about the execs? The burn rate of capital has to be very high.
4. Even if I would have been in a position to be interested, I would have been skeptical. This falls into the too the “too good to be true” bucket.
I would be interested in seeing what you are doing, heck, I might even provide consult for you in trade for equity. But work for you full time, even for what is a very large amount of money, I can’t do right now.
I wish you the best of luck.