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It is exceedingly easy to work hard at a big corporation. The goals set out are generally clear, and if you finish early there are always plenty of other projec
by zspade 15y ago
It is exceedingly easy to work hard at a big corporation. The goals set out are generally clear, and if you finish early there are always plenty of other projects. I'll liken it to an all you can eat buffet, you can always take more once you've finished what's on your plate.
The difference in working at a startup is that you must create those tasks that need doing. You can't grab them from an already pre-existing forumla. Simply put, you've got to plan and cook your dinner, and if you're still hungry, you've got to plan and cook more.
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- nostrademons 15y agoI'm not sure this distinction holds either. At Google, I'm given a fairly vaguely-specified task ("Provide this benefit for users") and then told to do what it takes to make it happen. It's not unlike launching a product in a startup, because, well, it is launching a product. I've heard this is pretty much Google's definition of a senior software engineer - one who can take a vaguely specified user requirement and then make it happen. There's a fair amount of gruntwork at a startup that's pretty obvious too, eg. when I was doing mine, I had to do all the server admin. This falls out naturally from actually having servers that need to stay up. I'd say that probably 80% of startup work is gruntwork, which isn't all that different from a job description in a big company.