> RSUs are taxed like income though, so from a tax perspective it’s pretty awful.
One approach is to accomplish the tax withholding by withholding some of the RSU grant at each vesting. This seems pretty reasonable, since you aren't out any cash to pay the taxes on an illiquid asset.
> You should always ask, and they should always tell you.
I'm currently on the job search. One of my offers was quite forthright and included the total number of outstanding shares and the fraction I would receive. But this seems very unusual.
The others all treated this information as proprietary/confidential. They either provide an opaque "valuation" of the equity, or give the current strike price ("fair market value" according to 409a) and preferred price (implied valuation after most recent funding round), and strongly imply that the spread here implies that the options are already significantly in-the-money.
Sometimes they just give the number of of options and their strike price.
I've only once had someone offer this without asking, but always been given it when requested, in some useful form. YMMV of course, but feeling the need to be coy about the cap table with potential hires (within reason, and assuming relatively young startup) would be a bit of a red flag for me.
Have you looked at actual end-to-end latency numbers for common operations? I’m not talking about theoretical transfer times between buffers or carefully structured synthetic benchmarks.
Using fast-twitch PC games as the gold standard, most people are looking at 60-80ms of latency on a local PC. The online game streaming services hover around 150ms, which is noticeable but still entirely usable. (Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-how-stadias-input-lag-compares... )
That’s why I say that 1ms vs 30ms of terminal latency is a non-issue. When I’m typing, I’m not on a tight feedback loop with each character. I know what I’m typing, so I’m not waiting for specific letters to appear on the order of a blink of an eye.
Most of us are using 60Hz monitors (17ms per frame) with terminals that have 20-30ms of lag, with OSes that introduce slightly more delay, and so on. Then we SSH into remote servers with 50ms, or 100ms, or 200ms of latency or more. The total delay between hitting a key and seeing the letter on screen could easily be 200ms on the regular for an SSH session, yet our typing isn’t falling apart.
That PC Gamer article is not an endorsement of the idea you're pushing that all this latency doesn't matter. "Singleplayer games are mostly fine to play through the cloud, but any cloud gaming platform is going to be a no-sell for people who only play multiplayer games, even with a good connection."
I don't want to give that magazine article too much credence, but when it comes to user experience, we as an industry ought to try for more than "mostly fine" or "isn't falling apart."
Stella Pajunas 1946 record of 216 wpm (54,000 strokes per hour, 900 per min, 15 per second, 66 ms) is on average. She must have typed considerably faster some of the time. Anything over 40 ms is probably noticeable.
Most wouldn't get near 1/3 of that but when the professionals say your shit doesn't work it does mean something. Trying to increase your speed using a system that cant keep up adds unacceptable annoyance.
Only 33% of the cases even result in an arrest [1] and 6 in 1000 cases actually result in jail time. That only 384/1000 are even reported to police shows what people think their options are in getting justice. (US is not an exception by any means.)
Well, sure, it's an outlier in such cases because it was prosecuted at all. But that's probably the opposite direction that the claim upthread meant to imply.
One approach is to accomplish the tax withholding by withholding some of the RSU grant at each vesting. This seems pretty reasonable, since you aren't out any cash to pay the taxes on an illiquid asset.