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You're not looking for a "startup" you're looking for a "company". Go and find an established company with a product and customers and help them maintain or ma
by web007 5y ago
You're not looking for a "startup" you're looking for a "company".
Go and find an established company with a product and customers and help them maintain or maybe grow their business. Find a post-IPO or post-acquisition company that isn't trying to hustle or pivot or disrupt and get a nine-to-five where you can punch the clock and collect a paycheck and everyone's happy.
Startups are not for everyone. Don't be afraid of working somewhere that already figured things out and is only executing on that plan.
- dotbob 5y agoOP here. I am curious. What about tech-excellency? I am not sure (I have never been to such companies). However, I believe that such problems (tech-debt and mediocre engineering culture) only tend to grow with time.
- web007 5y agoThose things tend to stagnate at some point, where you either fix them / get them to a reasonable level or they kill the company. Check out some of the top company-companies around, something like WalMart, vs a tech-company like Amazon. They don't make their billions a year by being mediocre, but since tech isn't their core business (only supportive thereof) they don't burn people out on it, so will probably have manageable levels of tech debt and average to above-average technical staff. Every company has tech debt and mediocrity, but if you're not changing the wheels on the car while going 110 down the highway it won't affect _you_ nearly as much.