Health benefits are cheap and retirement benefits are beyond phenomenal.
Employee stock ownership is awesome! I'm an owner in my company.
25% pto match up to limit
employee stock ownership program / company stock
Employee ownership stock via esop
Taking a 50% pay increase for lateral move. Immature/lack of investment in operations team and compensation
It's not even remotely close enough for what's required to live in the Bay Area. Health insurance is expensive, 401k matching at 25% of what you contribute is a joke.
Tenured management fails to think outside the box often enough, as they seem to feel threatened by new ideas. Hearing "we've been successful for a long time doing things this way" is not uncommon when new or more modern ideas are presented...particularly around compensation.