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> If you're good at what you do you can get a job tomorrow anywhere and there is near zero stigma about being associated with a failed startup Only true in goo
by akg_67 11y ago
> If you're good at what you do you can get a job tomorrow anywhere and there is near zero stigma about being associated with a failed startup
Only true in good times. Ask the employees who were associated with failed startups during dot bomb, circa late 1990s and early 2000s. You were SOL if you worked for a failed startup or a high profile failed public tech company. You were at the bottom of the pile in consideration. I know several companies that excluded employees from consideration that were previously associated with such failed ventures, Guilty by Association. This didn't change until 2004+ or so.
History will repeat itself.
- georgemcbay 11y agoCompeting anecdotes here and both can be true, but as someone working in the industry since the 1990s I personally never noticed any particular bias against people due to the prior company associations during this time period. People who lost jobs due to their companies going out of business were pretty SOL during this stretch of time (early 2000s), but in my experience the problem wasn't bias against them due to prior employers but rather that hardly anybody was hiring at all. Almost everyone (that wasn't busy filing for bankruptcy) was in a hiring freeze holding pattern waiting for the sky to stop falling.
- akg_67 11y agoYour sample of "hiring-freeze" companies is totally different from my sample of "hiring" companies in that time period. Employees looking for job don't care about the practices of the companies that are not hiring. They care about the practices of companies that are hiring.