Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
by dunpeal on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:40PM
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> Particularly when the first round of early employees don't have a lot of experience, but have a significant amount of influence and sway simply by nature of being an early employee.
As is often the case...
Very often the first generation of employees at a startup will consist mostly or solely of folks with 0-3 years experience at most. Then if that startup survives, all these people are "naturally" promoted to senior / team lead / tech lead levels...
> It can be very frustrating being someone with experience that has to sit back and watch big mistakes be made despite warnings from people who have done it before.
I feel you, brother. I've been there too.
> There's an attitude I've noticed also of, "we're not Xyz."
It's called "young arrogance".
"Hey, we're a bunch of straight-out-of-school engineers, but clearly we can do better than Google because we're awesome!".
As is often the case...
Very often the first generation of employees at a startup will consist mostly or solely of folks with 0-3 years experience at most. Then if that startup survives, all these people are "naturally" promoted to senior / team lead / tech lead levels...
> It can be very frustrating being someone with experience that has to sit back and watch big mistakes be made despite warnings from people who have done it before.
I feel you, brother. I've been there too.
> There's an attitude I've noticed also of, "we're not Xyz."
It's called "young arrogance".
"Hey, we're a bunch of straight-out-of-school engineers, but clearly we can do better than Google because we're awesome!".