I think about this frequently. I worked for a startup who gave me the full sell job that I was going to be some game changing hire who would usher in a new era of development. They tanked big time and now I’m another engineer toiling away at a big shop. There’s no amount of flattery that would get me to return to startup life. Small fish in a big pond until I retire.
Doesn't matter to me. I just want tc.
My man.
The most annoying thing about interviewing at startups is they are often interviewing a bunch of people for a single role. Even if you easily clear the bar you might lose out to one person who randomly had a bit more experience with one technology. At least at a giant corporation usually they are looking to fill multiple roles and you don't waste as much time interviewing.
The problem with startups is that 95% are going to run out of money in an year or two and layoff people, the rest are just chugging along until some big player picks them up or go IPO and tank big time. And you gotta be really lucky to land in that 5% and make some money, else 95 times out of 100 you are just left with paper money thays worth nothing at the end. I might as well spend the 2 years in a big company to get some stock options that are at least worth something.
This is the way: do your time in FAANG then title kite at L+1 or L+2 to a midsize public company, enjoy life much more as a D1+.
Moron still gets paid 100k for doing nothing and simply shitting and staring at laptop, Genius need to work ass off to get 70k
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BREAKING: Internal sources confirm another round of layoffs just hit emails at Tesla. For real.
All relative. You can be in a team that makes you feel like a rock star even in FAANG. Remember Google map, YouTube etc were once a startup. Imagine the calibre of people you'd be working with.