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The title is not a meaningful gauge of a person's knowledge or experience. It wouldn't be unheard of for a VP at a company with 50 employees to have similar responsibilities as a manager at a company with 1000 employees. They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge.


> They could also be VP of Engineering/Customer Service/etc. which would typically not be expected to have much, if any, legal or finance knowledge.

That's in the article:

> Four years ago, I landed a VP of engineering job at a red hot startup, for which I was granted options for 2% of the company.

That person could have easily been a Senior Software Engineer at FAANG before becoming a VP of engineering at a startup.

How much do Level 5 engineers at Google know about liquidation preferences if they have never worked at a startup before?


Ya, I'm not saying I'm 100% confident in my assessment. Just saying that reading it feels pretty fishy.

Just my opinion.




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