First Week as a SWE at a VC

Re:First Week as a SWE at a VC by meiraleal on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:30PM (#40859232)

So much drama for a work of week.

Everything is an odyssey these days.

"oh, they asked me to work before the agreement time", "they work during the weekend", what's the surprise? Sounds like a normal startup work.

VCs most of the time have no clue what they are doing but will behave as if they had built Meta or Google.

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Re:First Week as a SWE at a VC by tanseydavid on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:17PM (#40859627)

>> what's the surprise? Sounds like a normal startup work.

The surprise is the asymmetrical expectations.

I would not expect a paycheck from the new company during the in-between-jobs vacation time (which I pre-arranged before accepting the new position).

I would expect them to think that such an "ask" is outrageous bordering on insane.

And then there is the normalization of wage-theft through manipulation.

To clarify my position: while this may represent a type of startup work that is very commonplace there is nothing at all normal about it -- it is just a clever form of stealing.

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Re:First Week as a SWE at a VC by meiraleal on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @05:26PM (#40860582)

It's far from correct but it's the normal behavior in this kind of environment. It sucks, the alternative is to not work for them

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