Tell him not till they atleast offer you all equity in the company. Even then most people know the real value and failure rate of startups. I tell me people not to work at startups they don't really believe in.

I know we have a lot of openings for experienced programmers at my company, we get a lot of programmers that apply but few are experienced. If your in los angeles and want to work for a top internet company or are willing to relocate to los angeles contact me i'll hook you up with one of the 20 plus positions that are open.
Steve

It's been the same I think always there aren't enought truely good programmers and software engineers. Do you know the difference average salary and usually a software engineer has better interpersonal skills. Both things are in effect the same thing. Part of the difference is that a programmer is ofter interchangable with code monkey, line programmer while people who are good "Elite" often are categorized as software engineers. These are not absolute rules and really depends on your company and things like that. In general this is true.

real nice piece of machinery.. i heard that the programmers over there are phenomenal