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That's literally the scene of almost any SV startup. They don't "do" remote. Nor work life balance. It's all about asses in seats. Stay very clear of a work env
by ryanSrich 11y ago
That's literally the scene of almost any SV startup. They don't "do" remote. Nor work life balance. It's all about asses in seats. Stay very clear of a work environment like that.
- cballard 11y agoThis, albeit without the mess, is my current office setup. I can't quit as I've only been here 8 months, so I'm waiting to complete a full year. Sort of hoping the company just runs out of money so that I can have a free out.
- joncalhoun 11y agoWould you pay money to exercise those options? If you don't expect them to succeed then staying a full year for the options is pretty pointless, since they typically expire in ~90 days after you quit.
- cballard 11y agoNo - staying primarily to avoid the "job hopper" label, and to finish documentation coverage so that I can avoid burning bridges as much as possible - I am solely responsible for the portion of the product that I work on, no one else at the company even knows the language it's written in (which isn't particularly obscure). There's no way they'll be able to hire a replacement within two weeks, so documentation will be all they have to go on.
- jkestner 11y agoThe way I hear it from reading here, most SV startups spend too much of their funding on beautiful offices and amenities to encourage work as a lifestyle. That also gets a backlash. No blanket statement covers all situations or people—maybe some of those requirements are necessary for a given startup at a given time.
- lyricalpanda 11y agoI have a feeling that you don't really know much about SV startups.
- ryanSrich 11y agoQuite the contrary really. I've done contract and full time work for several (5) SV companies as well as countless interviews with 10s of others. My experiences have been fairly consistent.
- colmvp 11y agoI work remotely for a SV startup. And no one on the team works stupidly crazy hours. That's why anecdata is so misleading.
- FLGMwt 11y ago+1 for my new favorite term "anecdata" I'd be interested to hear your bullet points on working remotely for a SV startup. Work/life balance, perceived differences from onprem workers, etc.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoWe are a remote team. I talked with a VERY PROMINENT VC not long ago and he had this to say about it: It’s probably also worth mentioning that we have a bit of a bias against distributed teams, based on previous investment experience.
- Nicholas_C 11y agoWhat was their previous investment experience with remote teams?
- tarr11 11y agohttp://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/07/05/the-power-of-in-person-why-distributed-teams-are-less-effective/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/07/05/the-power-of-i...
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoThey didn't expand on it.
- to3m 11y agoOur research on the relationship between employee proximity and shareholder returns suggests suggests that optimal return will result from compressing employees into a hypersolid. 0.01mm^3 of employees could then generate between $10e788 and $11e788. Despite the massive energy requirements, ROI is still substantially positive, but gravitational effects at this scale make safe containment tricky. When optimizing for input cost, a reasonable solution for most purposes turns out to be: pack them like battery hens.
- astrange 11y agoThis is the office layout used by just about any company at all in Asia (Japan at least).
- yuhong 11y agoWhich also reminds me of the famous Quora fiasco: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-career-Uber-or-Zenefits https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-caree...