Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by roguecoder on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:27PM (#17288236)

What this suggests, capitalistically-speaking, is that there is insufficient supply of developers and the supply that does exist can be most effectively employed by large companies. Is the problem that startups are not an efficient way to use scarce developer resources, because there are too many of them producing too little value? Or is it that the supply of developers is too small?

A YC apprenticeship program, with in-house coaching, could play a similar role to traditional union programs.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by noir_lord on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:03PM (#17288575)

There is also the developer !== developer problem.

I've worked with terrible developers, developers I'd trust to maybe write a blog for my cat, developers I'd trust on an important system but they all called themselves developers.

The old joke used to be "You know what they call the guy with the lowest passing grade in his medical school? Doctor".

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by roguecoder on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:53PM (#17288942)

I'm excited by projects like http://darklang.com/ that are looking to make basic development more widely accessible, rather than requiring esoteric skilled labor mostly done by people who don't actually have the skills involved. It would be great if the industry got to the point that people coming out of school could be a net positive.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by noir_lord on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:21AM (#17292039)

That project looks interesting.

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