I'm done with startups!
I had a good thing going at G, left to go work on a tiny YC company where I knew the founding team. Worked for 80+ hours a week, learned whole new tech-stacks, and built anything any customer ever asked for. Company was not hitting KPIs, CTO ended up stealing money, and I had to leave. I interviewed for ~5 weeks and joined a hot-sh*t seed-stage AI startup with a huge seed round lead by great investors. I just quit four weeks later because... - The "office" ended up just being the CTOs apartment... they had tons of money idk why they couldn't get a WeWork. The CTO would take the stinkiest poops in the world and it would smell up the whole apartment. - The CEO was a total asshole. He expected 2-3 PRs a day starting day one and would just grade success based on how many changes you could put out. Not to mention he would berate anyone that slipped a deadline. He literally disabled the ability to "rollover" issues on Jira. - The CTO was even worse! He would never let a PR through without telling you how bad your code was but "just merge it anyways I guess." One time during our demos (we had demos instead of standup) he said I was being "a complete idiot" by merging in a change that caused some minor memory leakage in our CI tests. He turned it into a large lecture about taking pride in your work - dude, you literally approved the change!!! - The CEO was dating one of the engineers (literally 15 years younger than him lol) The pay was pretty good though, but I quit with nothing lined up because I could not be in that hellish company. Anyways, don't join startups. Code is code - what the company does with that code doesn't matter. All I want is a large company with stable pay, please god.
I didn’t know that AI is so bullshit today.
Oh man ... the CTO's apartment ... what a disaster! 🤣😆
Startups aren’t the problem — shitty people are. Do better due diligence!
Exactly, there’s garbage people in big companies too
Yeah but a big company has an office in non private space.
Yea F em. Good for you that you left. A lot of times your pride gets into the way and you don’t want to be the *quitter or become people pleaser. But it takes a lot of guts and smartness to identify that the things wont improve and save time energy and peace.
CTO taking stinky poops should’ve been a sign…
Stinkiest poop 💩🤣. How many engineers are working there?
Good thing you left such a stinky place and people
Dude, you are acting like you didn't know where the office is before you took the job. A recruiter reached out to me for a startup last month, and he said the CEO bought a mansion with their funding, and everyone is expected to work there. Told the recruiter to stop right there and declined.
I did not know until I signed. They just said their office was in <neighborhood>. It's pretty misleading because their website just shows stock photos of an office. Also, there was no recruiter.
Then you should have walked away after you found out. There is nothing new here. Early stage startups are like mom and pop stores, where only one or two people call the shots and act like dictators.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 holy fuck. What a toxic environment. Shit was even in that air. What made you leave G in the first place?
Ohh scary!! Go to Google again
Re-interviewing :)