Last company I looked at was freezing engineering headcount the same quarter they approved a $22M package for a new CEO with zero domain expertise. Told us budgets were tight. Sure they were.

If the ratio is insane and there posting record profits, that tells you exactly where you sit in the food chain.

Anyone else checking this before accepting an offer?

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Unfortunately that disconnect shows up in a lot of companies. Executive compensation and operating budgets often come from very different decision processes, so internally it can feel contradictory.

From the outside it’s frustrating, but it’s also a reminder that hiring freezes aren’t always purely about cash — sometimes they’re about priorities.

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No, but I guess I should be. Paying the C-suite at the cost of the actual employees seems to be the new trend. I bet it reveals a lot about what you’ll deal with in the company.

It would save us all a lot of time! At least knowing what we’re getting into before we sign up.

That pay gap between CEOs and employees just keeps skyrocketing. It's the same at pretty much every company these days. I would love if I could avoid companies like that and go back to working only for startups, but the job market is so bad that there is no option but to take what I can get.

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