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 ianamartin on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:31PM (#17294903)

It's great for you. It's pretty bad for any employees who have to pay for your mistakes as you get your personal growth on and skip career ladders.

I think being a founder is a great option right out of school--if you are working for yourself, responsible for your own mistakes, and not actively harming anyone else in your quest for personal achievement.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by heurist on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:00PM (#17295255)

FWIW I've worked with "experienced" founders who also had no idea what they were doing (in many but not all ways). There's never a guarantee that you won't be working for people who will make you deal with their mistakes.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018? by webmaven on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:35PM (#17299588)

Heck, there is no guarantee that you won't be working for someone like that in any type of company, regardless of "maturity" or sector.

Bad managers (and most bad management - from death marches to protoduction - can be boiled down to "makes the people who report to them pay for the manager's mistakes") exist even in supposedly mature companies with good corporate cultures.

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