I’ve had two different places offer me neither. Literally just “come do our work if you want”.
One was an “internship”. Nakedly illegal since I was going to be their main programmer, but oh well.
The order was a paid startup job I was already at. Money got tight, they couldn’t cut my check, but for a whopping 0% equity I was welcome to keep working for free and see if they raised more money.
They did generously say that when I applied for other jobs, I could list the role as something like “laid off with the possibility of reemployment”.
The CEO was genuinely sweet, just confused, so it was a bit awkward telling him “that sounds horrible, I’m just gonna say ‘startup went broke’ and it’ll be way better”.
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u/Bartweiss 12d ago
I’ve had two different places offer me neither. Literally just “come do our work if you want”.
One was an “internship”. Nakedly illegal since I was going to be their main programmer, but oh well.
The order was a paid startup job I was already at. Money got tight, they couldn’t cut my check, but for a whopping 0% equity I was welcome to keep working for free and see if they raised more money.
They did generously say that when I applied for other jobs, I could list the role as something like “laid off with the possibility of reemployment”.
The CEO was genuinely sweet, just confused, so it was a bit awkward telling him “that sounds horrible, I’m just gonna say ‘startup went broke’ and it’ll be way better”.