Working for a startup makes less sense

Re:Working for a startup makes less sense by sayrer on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:40PM (#21868513)

I've always thought this problem to be overstated. It doesn't make financial sense to work for a startup, but the upside is that you get to work on something you care about (and even the startup salaries aren't that bad in the grand scheme).

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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense by amznthrowaway5 on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:02PM (#21868654)

> the upside is that you get to work on something you care about

As a counter example, I found this is far more true at big companies, where you can switch teams until you find one that fits your interest, then at a startup where you are expected to work on basic infra that the company doesn't handle. For the data/ML related jobs that I was looking for and the industry is moving towards, big companies have tons of valuable data that startups could only dream of acquiring.

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Re:Working for a startup makes less sense by sayrer on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:23PM (#21869086)

I like the Elad Gil take on this issue: at big companies, you can have more /impact/, for the reasons you state.

At small companies, you have more control. That's in the high-growth handbook. :)

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