If an employer is willing to be abusive to you prior to hiring you, when you have maximum leverage and they are maximally incentivized to play nice, I think that gives you *extremely actionable* signal as to how they'll treat you when you're working there and dependent on them.
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For candidates: evaluate prospective employers accordingly. For startups employing e.g. engineers: given that your candidates should evaluate you accordingly, be *extra special* careful to operate like professionals with regards to e.g. interviewing, offers, and negotiation.
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"Can you be more explicit about 'abusive' here?" Not without violating a confidence, but as someone who has been on hiring side of table and is a capitalist, there are *clearly* things you could do which would be "sharp operating, but we're all sharp operators" in some contexts.
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for example, an abuse-like pattern I’ve heard from a friend recently: penalizing someone for asking how to value your stock options
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Oh eff *everything* about that.
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