Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
by ryanSrich on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:32PM
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> Both startups I worked for never had serious traction and both shut down as failed
I think this is the big difference. When you're working for a startup that literally can't keep up with demand (such as the one I work for now), it's an entirely different animal.
Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
by cortesoft on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:37PM
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Right, but in reality more startups are like the ones I worked for than like the one you work for. Most startups fail.
Although, given that both of our stories are just anecdotes, the advice might come down to "Work for a good company that does valuable things that make a difference to people"...
Both startups I worked for never had serious traction and both shut down as failed. We worked so hard to create really cool products, but there just was not the demand for what we made. Cool software with no users.
Now, I work for a huge company. My work gets deployed to tens of thousands of servers, and I know that people use and need what we make (because they pay us a lot of money). I can tell people who I work for and they know who it is, and I can point to things they do in their daily lives that my work touches.
I feel like I have a much bigger real-world impact at my current big company than the startups.