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I think a corollary to this question is whether HR people and others in charge of hiring attach a negative stigma to working on a failed startup.
by martey 16y ago
I think a corollary to this question is whether HR people and others in charge of hiring attach a negative stigma to working on a failed startup.
- jey 16y agoIt's highly culture-dependent. In Silicon Valley it's generally not considered a negative.
- sz 16y agoPrecisely. My dad is a typical executive at a big company and the consensus still seems to be that startups are not as "legitimate" as, say, working at Morgan Stanley. We argue about it a lot.
- c1sc0 16y agoThis attitude increases exponentially the further removed from Silicon Valley you are & is pretty much the status quo in Europe.
- c1sc0 16y agoWould you even want to work for a company for whom a failed startup is a negative?