Recruiting our second engineer and had a call with an American living in Berlin We got to salary negotiations and I offered €35K He laughed and said “is that per month?” in an annoying Texan accent I explained that it is annual and actually very competitive for a senior engineer in Germany He said he was making $220K at his last job in San Francisco plus equity I explained that sharing equity creates unhealthy incentives and I myself own only 12% after our seed round with a local family office He called me an euro loser and hung up That’s exactly the problem with the US tech, unrealistic compensation expectations that create market bubbles I will never work with Americans​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ again