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Originally Posted by DETRoadster

Yeah, it's best to steer clear of those situations unless you are after the experience and not the paycheck. I learned the hard way when I joined a VC backed company that was "poised to sell" and took a lower salary in exchange for company stock that would cash out upon sale. Well guess what, 7 years later we found ourselves literally days away from running out of money and the company was sold on fire sale for pennies on the dollar. All employee held stock was liquidated as part of the sale and us worker bees got nothing. After that the "cost cutting" began and heads began to roll. I got out at that point.

The thing is this started off really positively; the CFO at the time became real close to me; the moment the board realized they were losing money... things changed overnight. The CFO is now long gone and everyone left is a straight shark trying to exploit everyone to the max. The funniest part of this whole thing; the economy is booming and they could care less about employee turnover. Not only do I do my job but there is always an expectation for more and this lack of structure / management makes it that much more difficult. They are saying we should be lucky to have jobs after not giving raises... fuck em.