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If you start at a large company with a reputation for only hiring top candidates, you will start your career with a higher salary, a great company on your resum
by bratfarrar 15y ago
If you start at a large company with a reputation for only hiring top candidates, you will start your career with a higher salary, a great company on your resume, and experience in how world-class companies do things (both good and bad). These are your journeyman years, and will give you the experience, context, and contacts to be much more effective if and when you do decide to join a startup. It will also make you much more interesting and valuable to a startup (which will equal more equity).
- FrojoS 15y agoFine, but it might also hurt your creativity to drink the companies cool aid. Also, think about all the time you gonna waste in meetings. Not to speak of learning and using tools, that you dislike because they suck for you. I'm graduating in two weeks and I will try to do my own startup. If you're interested in robotics shoot me a message.
- yannickt 15y agoNot all large companies feed you kool aid, force you to attend pointless meetings or use shitty tools. And re: tools, this really has little to do with the company size, and sometimes you have to take shortcuts and use inelegant solutions to satisfy the customer - which actually happens a lot in startups. It is true that working for a large company can hurt your creativity, but on the other hand there are classes of problems that can really only be solved at a big co. If you enjoy working on these problems you might not have much of a choice.