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Why have I been told to begin your career at a startup, before you work at a big corp in order to "level up" your work environment? I took that advice and it ha
by ccajas 8y ago
Why have I been told to begin your career at a startup, before you work at a big corp in order to "level up" your work environment? I took that advice and it has just left me starving for better compensation and, and am pretty lacking skills-wise. And now I'm still unfit to get an offer at the big tech corps, or even a chance for an interview.
- kenhwang 8y agoThere's only a narrow window in your life where many of the cons of working for a startup don't ruin you. That window happens to overlap with the beginning of your career. If you have the skill to make it into a big corp at the beginning of your career, you can do it again later in your career -- they'll still be there later. I'm of the opinion that the generalist skill set you typically get from a startup is far more valuable than the specialist (and typically exclusive to the corp) skill set you get from the corp, and I'll even argue that the entry level skill set of the corp is pretty damn useless, but that's only from anecdotal evidence. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, startups dance at the edge of survival.
- w_t_payne 8y agoI agree -- to an extent. Some of the skills learned in big mature organisations tend to be very narrow and specific to the tools that the big organisation uses. Some ... but not all. The man-management and general engineering skills are still pretty transferable.