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Being the devil advocate, sometimes startups are the only place you can land that they're experimenting with a technology that interest you and you can use them
by hackits 10y ago
Being the devil advocate, sometimes startups are the only place you can land that they're experimenting with a technology that interest you and you can use them to pay for your education. Adamant the pay is less than your peers, but you're trading it for career advancement.
After you get the required skills and knowledge jump ship and re-market yourself and get pay rise.
- ithinkinstereo 10y agoYou make a valid point. Don't undervalue learning on someone else's dime. Start your career in bigco, then when your growth stalls, jumpstart it at a startup. Depending on the startup, you'll learn 10x what you would at a bigco. In this sense, the lower pay is fair. You gain in other ways.
- hackits 10y agoI kind of did it in reverse order. Started with a start-up learnt a lot of customer support, full product stack development, web-tier systems, linux/windows, encryption, and POS systems. This went on for two to three years about 50% bellow my peers wages. Moved into web development after a fall-out with the boss about relocation. After the fallout did a couple of interview with my peers and tippled my wages over-night in the new job. Just saying if you're going into the startup field do a lot of hard thinking about it before you go in. Make a battle plan, and dear god have a clear idea what you're aiming for and level of professionalism you want to reach. Would I do it again?! Maybe, just a word of advice don't court the bosses wife.