I can see a scenario where you do accept the golden handcuffs during a critical period of your life. Of course provided that it really is a very high salary. I.e.: simply doing it for the money for a couple of years to move the personal finances along.
Ie my original plan to stay in BigTech for four years and go back to my comfortable life of working for smaller companies.
But I will see if the pay/bullshit ratio is high enough to be worthwhile after my four year anniversary next year and all of my initial stock vest is completed.
But at 49 years old, my shit tolerance level is very low.
