- https://carta.com/blog/equity-101-stock-option-basics/
- https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/sections/typical-employee-equity-levels
- http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
- https://firstround.com/review/The-Right-Way-to-Grant-Equity-to-Your-Employees/
- The rest of the Holloway Guide is very in-depth, and extremely helpful for full context: https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/
- An informative anecdote https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/12/30/do-the-math-on-your-stock-options/
- https://vested.co/pages/learn
Important questions to consider:
- What % of the company do I own? (Not just # of shares)
- What is the vesting schedule?
- What is the type of stock: options, rsu, … ?
- What is the strike price? What is the value now?
- What is the expected dilution of future rounds?
- When are shares exercisable after leaving? (Post-termination exercise window) “2) Most employees only have 90 days after they leave a job to exercise their options…
August 2018, I left my job as an algorithm engineer at Hudson River Trading to begin an MS in Computer Science at Stanford. I had been working at HRT for two years after undergrad and I was enjoying it greatly. “Why leave to do the MS?” many have asked, and here is a collection of my reasons:
Classes are fun
After working for a while, I really missed taking classes.
- Course content is curated by professors, experts in their fields.
- Assignments focus on the fun experience of quickly learning new ideas and putting them right into practice. …
I was admitted to and began Stanford’s MS in Computer Science (MSCS) program in Fall 2018.
Some people have asked for advice on applying. In this post, I present some of my thoughts on applying and resources that I found useful. Not necessarily in order:
- Learn about the program. It’s 2 years. Research is optional. Be ready to either pay a lot of money or get a Teaching or Research Assistantship. Read the entire FAQs https://cs.stanford.edu/academics/prospective-masters/faq
- Compare the Stanford MSCS to other programs. Either PhD, MS, or MEng programs at other schools. In terms of MS specifically, two similar caliber/intensity…
Last weekend I went to a brain training class.
This was a rather serendipitous opportunity provided through Stanford’s graduate student-run event program, and one that I definitely would not normally seek out. Brain training? I’m already in school, taking classes, conducting research, why devote time to seemingly useless and mundane tasks when I could be focusing on learning things truly relevant to my field of study? On a whim, I decided to take this 1.5 hour class, and it was well worth my time.
The class focused on memory. Here’s a motivation. Say you’re at a social event at meet…
