Random list of all aspects of someone's job that may have a cash-equivalent effect on their assesment of the job's value:
Maybe worthwile as a tool for someone to assess the value they get from their current job
- salary
- annual bonus
- what portion is based on company performance vs personal performance
- what % of the total bonus was given the last 3 yrs to people
- annual salary growth policy (what was the salary growth on avg in the eng team last year?)
- expense policy
- signing bonus
- does the company pay for moving in expenses
- does the company pay for my bus/train tickets
- does it have a free daily meal? how often does the company pay for free meals
- does the company pay for my daily breakfast?
- does the company pay for mydaily coffee/snacks/junk food
- does the company pay for a new laptop/better than what I have? What is its value? How often do I get to upgrade it?
(if better than mine - e.g. a $4K Macbook Pro...that I can replace every 2 yrs that is incremental
value compared to a 2yr old on avg owned 1.5K air of ~1K/yr.
I get 50% of that extra value... the company gets the other 50%
(so ... even for something like that I can create a meaningful monetary equivalent…)
- How many big displays do I get on my desk
- do I get a good ergonomic chair? anyother better/worse than avg workstation equipment?
- does the company pay for extra broadband internet connectivity mifi/extra home bw?
- does the company pay portion of my cell bill - since I may on pager duty?
- does the company pay for annual conferences? what is typical budget? trip? ticket? How many days off do I get for that?
- Do I get monthly odesk/elance/mturk budget to allow myself to better scale/outsource my work to others?
- open source - does the company feels comfortable open-sourcing generic tools/libraries that it built?
- how many aws/heroku etc resources/budget do I get for my work projects? toy projects?
- do I get a paid/premium github/dropbox/yyyy account?
- do I get to work from home once in a while? once a week?
- do the people that work in the office know how to work with remote people (hangouts, online docs/prese.. or having meeting means have to be in the office?
- add the commute time benefits to that (once a week => 52 hrs => 2.5% of 2K annual hrs
- when calculating commute costs/benefits generate two pieces => one that acts
as a salary discount/addition (hourly rate x...) and another that captures the actual commute cost
(1hr => 1/5th of tank > $20-25 per day
- to how many meetings do I expect to be. (ask for the calendar of collueges to see coverage....
Assume 25% avg if more than that you are less efficient => apply discount for lack of job satisfaction
- do I get to work directly with famous people
- how famous/well known is the company I will work for
- how fancy is my title
- do Iget my credits on the film? (my photo/name on the website?) ?
- do I get to talk to conferences/workshop etc about what I do?
- How many interviews and time do I need to spend to get hired?
- Do I need to change my work attire?
- Can I bring my dog to work?
- Will others bring annoying pets to work?
- Don't I have a private office
- Arent we working in an open-office env
- What is the avg noise of the office?
- Is there free parking place? How hard is it to park?
- Can i bring my bike in the office?
- Are there electric car outlets nearby
- How far away is the train station, frequency of the stop, bullet train stop etc
- How bad is my commute for days that I have to be in the office during the traffic peak time?
- how often do I have to be in the office such times?
- stock options
- do you stock options (find out strike price, current common share value (409A), cliff
- how future/follow on grants are structured
- what is the strike price
- what is the cliff/vesting
- what is the usual plan for future add-tional options
- how often does the 409A get updated
- does the company have clauses the prohibit share exchange in secondary markets
- does the company treats its employees as shareholders - and shares with them regular financials, cap table break up - vacation days per year
typical job will allow you to take 15 days of vaca+sick (15x8 hrs = 120 out of 2K annual hours)
+/- of that amount add in the comp
- commute time to work
assume that avg work implies 1hr commute. a 2 hr commute => 1 extra hr per day => 10% more time
add a 10% discount (to the job's salary?)
- Do I get to use Uber every now and then?
- Does the company offer in-office dry-cleaner etc pickup (purple tie)
- Do I get any taskrabbit monthly allowance to deal more efficiently with personal logistics
- internationals
- does the company pay for my H1? green card?
- does it have experience doing so? When does my application can start? Can I control the timetable?
- Is the company willing to pay do the "fast track" path?
- will the company be ok with me spending some time in my home country - working remotely - as a way to provide a longer vaction to my family?
- does the company fores me to speak English even with my homo-ethnic colleagues?
Maybe worthwile as a tool for someone to assess the value they get from their current job
- salary
- annual bonus
- what portion is based on company performance vs personal performance
- what % of the total bonus was given the last 3 yrs to people
- annual salary growth policy (what was the salary growth on avg in the eng team last year?)
- expense policy
- signing bonus
- does the company pay for moving in expenses
- does the company pay for my bus/train tickets
- does it have a free daily meal? how often does the company pay for free meals
- does the company pay for my daily breakfast?
- does the company pay for mydaily coffee/snacks/junk food
- does the company pay for a new laptop/better than what I have? What is its value? How often do I get to upgrade it?
(if better than mine - e.g. a $4K Macbook Pro...that I can replace every 2 yrs that is incremental
value compared to a 2yr old on avg owned 1.5K air of ~1K/yr.
I get 50% of that extra value... the company gets the other 50%
(so ... even for something like that I can create a meaningful monetary equivalent…)
- How many big displays do I get on my desk
- do I get a good ergonomic chair? anyother better/worse than avg workstation equipment?
- does the company pay for extra broadband internet connectivity mifi/extra home bw?
- does the company pay portion of my cell bill - since I may on pager duty?
- does the company pay for annual conferences? what is typical budget? trip? ticket? How many days off do I get for that?
- Do I get monthly odesk/elance/mturk budget to allow myself to better scale/outsource my work to others?
- open source - does the company feels comfortable open-sourcing generic tools/libraries that it built?
- how many aws/heroku etc resources/budget do I get for my work projects? toy projects?
- do I get a paid/premium github/dropbox/yyyy account?
- do I get to work from home once in a while? once a week?
- do the people that work in the office know how to work with remote people (hangouts, online docs/prese.. or having meeting means have to be in the office?
- add the commute time benefits to that (once a week => 52 hrs => 2.5% of 2K annual hrs
- when calculating commute costs/benefits generate two pieces => one that acts
as a salary discount/addition (hourly rate x...) and another that captures the actual commute cost
(1hr => 1/5th of tank > $20-25 per day
- to how many meetings do I expect to be. (ask for the calendar of collueges to see coverage....
Assume 25% avg if more than that you are less efficient => apply discount for lack of job satisfaction
- do I get to work directly with famous people
- how famous/well known is the company I will work for
- how fancy is my title
- do Iget my credits on the film? (my photo/name on the website?) ?
- do I get to talk to conferences/workshop etc about what I do?
- How many interviews and time do I need to spend to get hired?
- Do I need to change my work attire?
- Can I bring my dog to work?
- Will others bring annoying pets to work?
- Don't I have a private office
- Arent we working in an open-office env
- What is the avg noise of the office?
- Is there free parking place? How hard is it to park?
- Can i bring my bike in the office?
- Are there electric car outlets nearby
- How far away is the train station, frequency of the stop, bullet train stop etc
- How bad is my commute for days that I have to be in the office during the traffic peak time?
- how often do I have to be in the office such times?
- stock options
- do you stock options (find out strike price, current common share value (409A), cliff
- how future/follow on grants are structured
- what is the strike price
- what is the cliff/vesting
- what is the usual plan for future add-tional options
- how often does the 409A get updated
- does the company have clauses the prohibit share exchange in secondary markets
- does the company treats its employees as shareholders - and shares with them regular financials, cap table break up - vacation days per year
typical job will allow you to take 15 days of vaca+sick (15x8 hrs = 120 out of 2K annual hours)
+/- of that amount add in the comp
- commute time to work
assume that avg work implies 1hr commute. a 2 hr commute => 1 extra hr per day => 10% more time
add a 10% discount (to the job's salary?)
- Do I get to use Uber every now and then?
- Does the company offer in-office dry-cleaner etc pickup (purple tie)
- Do I get any taskrabbit monthly allowance to deal more efficiently with personal logistics
- internationals
- does the company pay for my H1? green card?
- does it have experience doing so? When does my application can start? Can I control the timetable?
- Is the company willing to pay do the "fast track" path?
- will the company be ok with me spending some time in my home country - working remotely - as a way to provide a longer vaction to my family?
- does the company fores me to speak English even with my homo-ethnic colleagues?
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