700k total comp, so probably between 150-300k base salary, 50k bonus, and the rest in stock comp, usually vesting in batches over four years.

Anecdata just means anecdotal data, i.e data points I know from people personally but not a representative sample.

Ahhh thanks! I figured "TC" was "total compensation" but wasn't sure how to interpret 700 since $700k/yr seemed enormous, but if it's salary for a year plus a chunk of stock that vests over a few years that makes more sense.

Well..... It's still an enormous chunk. Assume you're making 350 cash comp (300+50 bonus), that's another 1.4m in stock vesting over 4 years (350/y)

Oh they're getting the stock yearly? Yeah that's a lot. Well, good on them I suppose!

That’s fucking ludicrous

Yes, but it's also not farfetched when you think about who owns most of the talent and what's needed to peel that talent away. It's not as absurd as it was e.g when waymo was comping employees so heavily on milestones that they just straight-up quit because they made enough to retire.

700k total compensation* not sure how over how long though.

When people say total comp they are referring to yearly.