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Oof, this hits home. Out of college I worked for a large company that's well-known for hiring lots of folks straight out of undergrad with high salaries and a
by z3ugma 6y ago
Oof, this hits home.
Out of college I worked for a large company that's well-known for hiring lots of folks straight out of undergrad with high salaries and a demand of high hours.
Despite an almost cultlike devotion to meritocracy and micro-feedback, the "merits" only mattered if it was in furtherance of already established norms of success.
In a large company like that, deviation wasn't viewed as having a unique skillset, it was viewed as making it harder for other people around you to fit their work into a unique landscape that featured you.
If you feel like your company treats you this way, can I recommend a startup? When no one knows whether the process you're following today is the "right" process, like while a startup is achieving product-market fit, then there's lots of room for unique thinkers.
- woutr_be 6y ago> If you feel like your company treats you this way, can I recommend a startup? Having worked in both startups and large corporate companies, I feel they're just on the opposite side of the spectrum. In big corps there are established processes that are almost impossible to change, in startups the processes are changed daily, which can be equally annoying. Jumping to a startup because you don't like the big corp style is a major change, the same goes for the other way around. Maybe go for a smaller, but already established company.
- rmk 6y agoSome of the most heavily mismanaged places I have worked at have been startups. All sorts of insane people, particularly at management level, but also rank-and-file. Large companies have standardized interview and background checking processes on top of fairly standard requirements of candidates (educational qualification etc.) that work to root out pyschopaths and just plain weirdos, most of the time. No such luck at startups.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThat's no much good if you are a psychopath or weirdo though.
- FabHK 6y agoI seem to recall studies that upper management in large companies has about 2.5x as many sociopaths as the general population.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoIn particular CEOs
- rocqua 6y ago> deviation wasn't viewed as having a unique skillset, it was viewed as making it harder for other people around you to fit their work If your unique skillset makes it harder for people to work with you, it might not be that much of an asset, even if the skills are impressive.