What happened to the golden age of tech where there were many unicorns working on truely innovating tech that one could be passionate about. Now its all about faang. I remember when i first was getting excited about software engineering i would watch videos on tesla ai and silicon valley, the social network things of that nature and the idea of being part of a company in hypergrowth was super exciting. building something incredible or stupid just because its fun. Why do swes as a whole shit on other passionate people for being interested in startups? If I got the chance to join an interesting hyper growth company i would be super interested but I only get offers from microsoft amazon and google. Where are the cool exciting roles that baited me into dropping out to study swe? TC: 250k Yoe 1
In my case, I grew up and don't want the bullshit of a startup anymore. Well we can't pay a ton because we're a startup but we'll give you lots of worthless equity and you're not going to have one job you're going to have 30 because we all just get it done here (even the CEO takes support calls!), and we're going to change our mission and product over and over for product market fit but it's really because shiny thing. I'm too old for that shit.
^This
they’re out there but Blind is full of pessimists
And olds
2012 seemed like the prime year for startups. Development was becoming a lot easier thanks to things like React.js/Node.js/Docker. It was much easier getting a product to MVP with these tools. But then I think it died off when investors see many startups end up dead.
Look at recent tech IPOs 📉
Two reasons in my opinion: 1. Execs at startups became too greedy & started exploiting passionate people to the point where the whole industry developed a largely vengeful attitude towards it 2. Exponentially growing numbers of mediocre individuals. Buttload of crappy engineers who have 0 creativity or independent thinking, are reliant on rote learning and can only replicate - not develop. These people hate startups with passion and it becomes a lose-lose situation.
Your opinion matters. However, those rote learners don't hate startups in my opinion. They usually go to startups and do terrible, leaving their mess on others to do their job for them, which sours the experience for others and that leads to everyone involved hating startups.
yeah the problem is that people hire rote memorization people. z
If you want to see excitement around startups, Blind is literally the last place to look. Most of the blinders are inexperienced people who only saw booming period in careers and are unable to comprehend this rout. There is plenty of excitement around startups especially after them raising mind-blowing amounts of money in 20/21.
It’s still happening OP, but you gotta look for the gems. They don’t usually have teams of recruiters spamming every inbox
I think just recently with faang and other companies paying so much liquid money it’s just so risky to join a startup. Where’s say 20 years ago when tech salaries weren’t high you weren’t really risking like 200k+/year by trying out a startup like you would now
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