Turning down a half-salary Hugging Face offer years ago: 'well... :)'
smlpth · x · 2026-09-04
The author recalls being able to join Hugging Face a few years ago and finding its mission exciting and culture outstanding — but the base salary offered was half of what he was making, and he wasn't ready to bet that the equity could ever offset the gap. He declined. With a pointed "well… :)", he implies his skepticism about that equity may have aged well given the company's current situation.
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