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Ask HN: What does "competitive equity" look like in 2025?

2•seattle_spring•6h ago
Many of the listings on the "Who is Hiring" posts give a salary range, but their equity incentives almost all just say something along the lines of "competitive equity."

My experience suggests that this can mean wildly different things to different companies, even for similar offers at similar stages of funding.

Given the jobs landscape has changed quite over the last few years, I'm curious what "competitive equity" looks like nowadays. I'm specifically curious about it in the context of startups at different stages of funding (A through ~E: basically any company size that still measures ISO equity in "percent" over "cash value"), and for various levels of full-stack software engineers (Entry-level through Principal).

I'm not so much looking for "AI"-specific offers, though I admit I am a bit curious.

Otto Nemenz, Supplier and Designer of Cameras and Lenses for Hollywood, Dies

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/otto-nemenz-dead-cameras-lenses-hollywood-123...
1•Marshferm•1m ago•0 comments

Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/why-do-ai-enterprise-projects-fail/
1•zdw•3m ago•0 comments

Implementing Soft Deletion in Prisma with Client Extensions

https://matranga.dev/true-soft-deletion-in-prisma-orm/
1•frankmatranga•4m ago•1 comments

Researchers Behind CRISPR Therapy Launching Clinical Trial for Rare Diseases

https://www.chop.edu/news/researchers-behind-personalized-crispr-therapy-plan-launch-new-type-cli...
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME

https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html
1•gurjeet•10m ago•1 comments

An individual can change an organization

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-11-03-an-individual-can-change-an-organization.html
1•zdw•17m ago•0 comments

Plastic bags sold in California stores aren't recyclable, Bonta says

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-17/bonta-settles-with-plastic-bag-producers-file...
2•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

Lamp Club, a Luddite Group, Has Come to Free the 'iPad Babies'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/style/lamp-club-luddites.html
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

Lessons from GitHub

https://github.com/swannysec/lessons-from-github
1•jonmagic•19m ago•0 comments

Nearly 400k people are starving in Sudan, a new report finds

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g-s1-96318/famine-spreads-to-two-more-areas-in-sudan-global-hunger...
4•wslh•21m ago•0 comments

The Next Big Thing

https://semiengineering.com/the-next-big-thing/
1•initramfs•25m ago•1 comments

Kimberly-Clark to buy Tylenol-maker for more than $40B

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr43dp99k4vo
1•1659447091•27m ago•0 comments

Ultramarine Linux – Fedora-Based Distro, Simple yet Powerful Experience for All

https://ultramarine-linux.org/
1•TheWiggles•30m ago•0 comments

A robotaxi killed a beloved SF cat; city supervisor wants driverless car reform

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-killed-cat-21136038.php
2•mikhael•30m ago•1 comments

Trump says China, other countries can't have Nvidia's top AI chips chips

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-says-nvidias-blackwell-ai-chip-not-other-people-2025-11...
2•teleforce•31m ago•0 comments

2.7B Buildings

https://tech.marksblogg.com/open-building-map.html
2•marklit•34m ago•1 comments

GPT-OSS-Safeguard

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss-safeguard/
1•factorymoo•34m ago•0 comments

My Truck Desk

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/29/truck-desk/
1•zdw•38m ago•0 comments

Hiring for Software Engineers (prev exited founders)

https://chlorinated-random-3cc.notion.site/Software-Engineer-242a87e3e0578077ac71d89d8974637e
1•georgeharmony•46m ago•1 comments

Show HN: TikTok Transcript – free, no-login subtitles to .srt/.txt

https://tiktoktranscript.org
1•brian_bian•48m ago•0 comments

First scientific evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh found on skeleton

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kpz2vnqglo
2•1659447091•49m ago•0 comments

Low-Level Hacks

https://blog.raycursive.com/en/blog/low-level-hacks/
1•raycursive•49m ago•1 comments

Git is too complex for most of us

https://ewaldbenes.com/en/blog/git-is-too-complex-for-most-of-us
3•thunderbong•53m ago•2 comments

OpenAI debated merging with one of its biggest rivals after firing Sam Altman

https://www.aol.com/news/openai-debated-merging-one-biggest-191042428.html
3•nsoonhui•56m ago•0 comments

Binance Life – A four character poem about modern capitalism

https://medium.com/@ku3cokr/binance-life-%E5%B8%81%E5%AE%89%E4%BA%BA%E7%94%9F-a-four-character-po...
3•hamsic•56m ago•0 comments

Don't Cling to Your Old Job After Being Promoted

https://hbr.org/2025/10/dont-cling-to-your-old-job-after-being-promoted
1•mooreds•57m ago•0 comments

Australians to get 3 hours/day free solar power-even without solar panels

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/03/australians-to-get-at-least-three-hours-a-...
1•bookofjoe•59m ago•1 comments

Metaphors for Biology: Sizes

https://www.asimov.press/p/metaphors-size
1•galoisplusplus•1h ago•0 comments

You Are Fucked If You Can't Write Clearly. And That's Pretty Scary.

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/you-are-fucked-if-you-cant-write
3•crescit_eundo•1h ago•0 comments

UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones

https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/unitedhealth-pays-its-optum-physicians-17-percent-more/
18•brandonb•1h ago•6 comments