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The great frustration is that the longer you spend tilting at those windmills at large companies, the less likely you are to get a startup to actually hire you,
by vonmoltke 10y ago
The great frustration is that the longer you spend tilting at those windmills at large companies, the less likely you are to get a startup to actually hire you, since you are too "corporate" or "enterprisey".
- Greenisus 10y agoThat has never been true for me. I've been able to go from large companies to startups and vice versa without any trouble.
- vonmoltke 10y agoWell, I haven't. Just last week I had DigitalOcean refuse to even talk to me because my experience was "too government/enterprise". I imagine the dozens of black holes at similar companies I have communicated into over the past years are for similar reasons.
- spraak 10y agoSounds like DigitalOcean is "too startup"
- mavelikara 10y agoStartups which can afford to reject a candidate on these grounds are probably too late to join anyways? Something doesn't add up here.
- crpatino 10y agoDon't VCs require more "enterprisey" people at later stages, when product discovery is done and operations/scaling up takes precedence?
- tedmiston 10y agoThe types of problems experienced in mid to late stage are definitely more relevant to someone with experience at ops and scale. Late stage startups or enterprise (the line blurs) are popular places to pick such talent, and for these needs specifically, Netflix is one popular source.
- tedmiston 10y agoThe reality of your comment varies widely by the stage of the startup. Pre-seed is a radically different animal than Series B.