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 faang_emp_1 on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:57PM (#17288972)

Obviously a throwaway account, but I work at Facebook, on an infrastructure team. I average ~45 hours/week, except for the week I'm oncall, which is about every three months. I probably work 60 hours that week. I get in early (7:30am) and leave early (3 or 3:30), and sometimes I'll review diffs at night, but normally my laptop stays in my trunk when I'm at home.

I work hard when I'm at work, and really focus. I don't do a lot of the extra-curricular stuff that you can easily spend your time on. I'm an L6 and last year earned just north $450K with decent performance reviews. I have damn near a million dollars in unvested $FB RSUs, too, so there's almost no chance I'm going to leave for anywhere that won't match that with equally liquid public shares.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by jonmb on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:24PM (#17289147)

Thanks for the response. Sometimes I get the impression that engineers are killing themselves doing nothing but work with occasional sleep, so it's good to hear you're around 45 hours.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by BadassFractal on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:03PM (#17289027)

Would you mind sharing how long you've been working there and your level of seniority? Would be super interesting to know for at least my reference.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by sheeshkebab on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:07PM (#17289395)

My guess 6 to 10 years

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