Hello everyone,
I’ve been at Netflix close to a year now. My performance, WLB, team are all great and I’m also up for promotion. The only thing is that I feel like in this point of my career prestige doesn’t matter to me, impact does a lot. I worked at G, early Nutanix, and now N. I’ve been thinking, I feel like I want to join a startup and have a huge impact. What do you guys think. Where does one go from here?
YOE 8, TC 560
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If you join a startup you're gonna miss taking home 30k a month. Do you have enough capital saved to continue your lifestyle while you work for paper money?
Startups are risky beyond the obvious financial risks. The ceo could be a sociopath, your manager incompetent, your coworkers green, the list goes on. There's a lot of nice guarantees that come with working at a FANG that we start to take for granted. You'll either have to be prepared to handle a much more challenging work life, or hope that Netflix will take you back with open arms if things don't pan out (which, given their firing policy, seems unlikely).
I'd generalize the above by saying the longer to let yourself save up, the riskier a move you can make.