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When it comes to compensation I think it's pretty clear that Big Companies win. You don't even need to point to Google, Facebook, etc to make this point. Howev
by hacknat 11y ago
When it comes to compensation I think it's pretty clear that Big Companies win. You don't even need to point to Google, Facebook, etc to make this point.
However, his argument becomes truly hand-wavey and spurious when it comes to the interesting work part. Of course some of the most interesting tech papers are coming out of Google, that doesn't mean anything for the average Google employee. Also, in his, argument, he goes from "here's what the average can expect for compensation" to, "you need leverage to work on interesting things at big companies...get some".
Of course not all start ups provide interesting work, but I think the dice roll is solidly in the camp of start ups for interesting work against the Big Cos, whose interesting work dice roll, I would guess, is similar to the start up comp dice roll. Unless rebuilding a bog standard UI framework is your thing.
At my first startup job I got to:
- build a compiler
- implement shared memory on high traffic services
- play with any language I wanted
- manage smart and interesting people
- more stuff, but I'm tired of typing.
- sbierwagen 11y agoYou did a greenfield implementation of a compiler? Why?
- marssaxman 11y agoit's terrifically fun?
- dasil003 11y agoInvestors invest in fun?
- marssaxman 11y agoWas the question about investors? I thought it was addressed to the person who did the implementation.
- dasil003 11y agoHe said he worked for a startup.
- cldellow 11y agoOne of my first jobs was at a startup founded in the late 90s. We had a compiler to transpile UIs and business logic to C#, JSP, ASP.NET and Java, depending on what the end customer's requirements were. Was this a good idea? Separate question. But that's one story of why a startup might write a compiler. I often think startups do things the hard way just to turn a boring task into an interesting one. Conveniently, good startups have technically strong people who can do this without it being a drag on productivity. This company had no shortage of talented folks--their staff have gone on to work at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and at least one YC company.
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