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"albeit" not "all be it"


I'm an experienced developer currently looking for work within an hour radius of Cincinnati and was really excited to see this post. Then my hopes were dashed. A bit of constructive feedback:

1. "You are expected", "All employees are expected"... these phrases are extremely off-putting.

2. Your required-skill-to-salary combinations are absurd. Under full stack dev, you've listed everything under the sun: backend, frontend, database, devops, both mobile platforms and mandatory evangelism/marketing... enough stuff that it would take someone 5+ years of intense work to get comfortable with it, much less master it. And then you list $50k-70k? Someone with all those skills and that kind of experience is worth $125k, easy, even in Cincinnati.

And, no, your equity numbers don't make up the difference. Let's say your company is valued at 1-5 million right now (and that this potential employee, by some miracle, agrees with that valuation). 1% equity equates to $10-50k, undoubtedly vesting over 3-4 years. That shouldn't float anyone's boat.

Edit: I see you just raised $1.2 million. First, why not include that information in your post? It's a huge validator. Second, assuming your total fundraising has traded away 20% of the company at this point, then your current valuation is more like $6 million. The equity portion of the full stack position (~1%) is still only $60k vesting over 3-4 years. Better, but still way off the mark.


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