Re:Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take?
by bb88 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:30PM
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> Smaller company means usually less politics.
In my experience this was completely untrue. Stable companies are stable for a reason. They've figured out their path to profit and churn on making deliverables. It doesn't matter so much on size, per se, but it does matter that the profit has stabilized. And you're much more likely to find that in larger companies, frankly, because they're large for a reason.
In a small company, typically, the path to sustained profit is unknown and variable. Today you're the founder's best friend because you can crank out ruby code like there's no tomorrow. And then tomorrow shows up and you're out, because some influencer that the founder listens to told him that Node.JS is the future is Ruby on Rails is old hat.
In my experience this was completely untrue. Stable companies are stable for a reason. They've figured out their path to profit and churn on making deliverables. It doesn't matter so much on size, per se, but it does matter that the profit has stabilized. And you're much more likely to find that in larger companies, frankly, because they're large for a reason.
In a small company, typically, the path to sustained profit is unknown and variable. Today you're the founder's best friend because you can crank out ruby code like there's no tomorrow. And then tomorrow shows up and you're out, because some influencer that the founder listens to told him that Node.JS is the future is Ruby on Rails is old hat.