The Work at a Startup resource is great. We've found it to be an excellent hiring resource. As other folks have noted, the pros/cons of working at a startup vs

The Work at a Startup resource is great. We've found it to be an excellent hiring resource. As other folks have noted, the pros/cons of working at a startup vs an established Silicon Valley tech company have shifted over the past couple of years. I think of venture-backed tech companies as falling into three broad buckets: 1. early stage startups 2. "post-Series B" high growth 3. large, publicly traded At a startup, you get to see a lot (both good and bad) that's highly relevant if you want to start a company yourself at some point. You have much more responsibility earlier in your career than you will have anywhere else, and you get an equity lottery ticket. At a high-growth company, you have the invaluable experience of seeing growing pains first hand, your equity is much more likely to be worth something (statistically) than at a startup, and down the road people in the San Francisco startup ecosystem are likely to look at this experience on your resume as uniquely valuable. At a big company, you have great work/life balance, great guaranteed (or quasi-guaranteed) comp, and -- sometimes -- you have unique resources available to you. I wrote a blog post earlier this year about this that goes into more detail: https://medium.com/@kwindla/what-kind-of-silicon-valley-company-do-you-want-to-work-at-6739679c4bb8 https://medium.com/@kwindla/what-kind-of-silicon-valley-comp...