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I personally work for startups because I prefer building and owning big projects over maintaining someone else's cog in the corporate clocktower. I'm not inter

I personally work for startups because I prefer building and owning big projects over maintaining someone else's cog in the corporate clocktower. I'm not interested in working on the "retention" team, or the "console ad integration" team. I want to build the main thing and feel like I make an impact every day I go to work. It is possible to do that at a larger business but the odds are stacked against me. Google has a history of killing large projects, and the thought of two years work being cancelled by an accountant because it didn't make enough money just sounds draining on a completely different emotional level.

rrdharan 5y ago
The average engineer at a startup is far more likely to work on something for two years that ends up being pointless, and canceled, by economics, when the entire startup fails.
- WJW 5y ago
  Or even if the startup is successful, because no initial MVP survives 10x userbase growth. Every company I've ever worked for was constantly reworking parts of the codebase that were "good enough" 2-3 years ago but aren't anymore.
- cblconfederate 5y ago
  But if you view your work as something that you do primarily for yourself, you end up with a net gain