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It's not just the formatting, the content is also rather unimpressive. How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a co

It's not just the formatting, the content is also rather unimpressive. How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a corporate job, where presumably you worked on much bigger projects? My takeaway: Not every startup founder needs to write blog articles and post them to HN.

macspoofing 10y ago
>Not every startup founder needs to write blog articles and post them to HN. What's the point of joining a startup then?
rahulchowdhury 10y ago
I was on my initial training there, I quit halfway during my training, so I didn't get a chance to work on a real big project in that company.
WhitneyLand 10y ago
With that lack of respect, I doubt you've ever started a company, but if you have, you know it's one long string of running into things you've never done before. Even strictly on the technical side that's usually true because there are so many unique aspects to every code base. I choose to disagree, and thank Rahul for sharing real life experience, and hope that he and others continue to do so. Anyone who has the balls to quit and start from nothing I assume has at least one interesting thing I can learn from their journey (not to exclude women with the colloquialism).
- jmiserez 10y ago
  I'm sorry if my comment came across as lacking respect, I meant no disrespect towards the author as a person. I would like to apologize if I insulted the author in any way. It's just that given the title (i.e. corp->startup) I expected something different from all the other, similar articles.
coldtea 10y ago
>How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a corporate job, where presumably you worked on much bigger projects? You'd be surprised. Enterprise might mean tons of legacy visual basic apps, or crappy add-ons to some proprierary platform, not "much bigger projects". Just because you e.g. work for a branch of Unilever somewhere, it doesn't mean you work on their payroll system or anything close to it.

macspoofing 10y ago

>Not every startup founder needs to write blog articles and post them to HN. What's the point of joining a startup then?

rahulchowdhury 10y ago

I was on my initial training there, I quit halfway during my training, so I didn't get a chance to work on a real big project in that company.

WhitneyLand 10y ago

With that lack of respect, I doubt you've ever started a company, but if you have, you know it's one long string of running into things you've never done before. Even strictly on the technical side that's usually true because there are so many unique aspects to every code base. I choose to disagree, and thank Rahul for sharing real life experience, and hope that he and others continue to do so. Anyone who has the balls to quit and start from nothing I assume has at least one interesting thing I can learn from their journey (not to exclude women with the colloquialism).

jmiserez 10y ago
I'm sorry if my comment came across as lacking respect, I meant no disrespect towards the author as a person. I would like to apologize if I insulted the author in any way. It's just that given the title (i.e. corp->startup) I expected something different from all the other, similar articles.

coldtea 10y ago

>How can you not be able to find your way through a startup codebase if you came from a corporate job, where presumably you worked on much bigger projects? You'd be surprised. Enterprise might mean tons of legacy visual basic apps, or crappy add-ons to some proprierary platform, not "much bigger projects". Just because you e.g. work for a branch of Unilever somewhere, it doesn't mean you work on their payroll system or anything close to it.