Re:Europe’s Startup Unicorns
by vasilakisfil on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:56AM
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Interesting but I really don't envy working for a unicorn. Usually in such fast paced fast growing companies the most toxic environments tend to come up.
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I worked for one of the companies listed from the start of explosive growth from ~100 employees to 1000+. It was really fun.
Some of the later PMs were toxic (I wouldn't say it's much better in large enterprises though), but it was great to focus on the engineering at the start and work closely with lots of different partners.
dog-eat-dog is the natural state. Some people like it, other think it's toxic.
I like to really explore innovative options so too fast of a pace can be annoying being at the bottom of the latter at a fast-paced company.