Compensation. I know an engineer with 3 year experience who was offered 150K salary + 600K of stock grant over 4 years. Management get paid a lot more, obviously.
Is this a recent offer or an old offer with current valuation of their stock? The latter seems reasonably if the stock offer had a five-figure valuation but a recent offer of 600k in stock seems ludicrous. Are public tech companies really offering that much in compensation these days?