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> don't want to deliver a high-impact product > earn some reasonable money These two are in opposition

hasmolo 5y ago
not really, you can make good money not at a big corp, amd not work on high impact stuff. yelp, intuit, adobe all fit the bill
- oblio 5y ago
  I like how the definition of Big Corp has changed. > Adobe 22 000 employees. Revenue of $12.86 billion. They're a literal Fortune 500 company (and not that far off from Fortune 200): https://fortune.com/company/adobe-systems/fortune500/ https://fortune.com/company/adobe-systems/fortune500/
  - yunohn 5y ago
    That’s because HN (and the general media) have come to brand just FAANG as evil megacorps. We’ve forgotten about general tech/companies, consulting, fossil/energy, etc etc that are also very very mega.
derwiki 5y ago
Not at Megacorp they aren’t
- aniforprez 5y ago
  Megacorp usually at least starts with a good product that sells well
  - oblio 5y ago
    And once that takes off, think of Google, for example, they also build another 1000 external products and 10000 internal apps.
dagw 5y ago
I've worked on some seriously "low-impact" internal tools at large companies, and the pay was fine.
- KronisLV 5y ago
  Aren't large and well paying companies a bit of an exception in many cases? For example, here in Latvia we don't quite have such a large tech scene, outside of WITCH companies. Thus, it feels like that argument isn't entirely valid in all that many circumstances.
handrous 5y ago
You've forgotten about the effect of investment. Work on a team doing contract early-stage development for funded (that's important) startups and greenfield "experimental" projects for larger corporations and you can work on four projects in one year, zero of which ever see enough ROI to pay back just your personal pay. And then do it again the next year. The end result is that you feel like a tiny part of some weird, random, extremely expensive process to (rarely) create successful new businesses. Like part of a living pachinko machine that burns cash. But you can get paid plenty for it!

not really, you can make good money not at a big corp, amd not work on high impact stuff. yelp, intuit, adobe all fit the bill

oblio 5y ago
I like how the definition of Big Corp has changed. > Adobe 22 000 employees. Revenue of $12.86 billion. They're a literal Fortune 500 company (and not that far off from Fortune 200): https://fortune.com/company/adobe-systems/fortune500/ https://fortune.com/company/adobe-systems/fortune500/
- yunohn 5y ago
  That’s because HN (and the general media) have come to brand just FAANG as evil megacorps. We’ve forgotten about general tech/companies, consulting, fossil/energy, etc etc that are also very very mega.

derwiki 5y ago

Not at Megacorp they aren’t

aniforprez 5y ago
Megacorp usually at least starts with a good product that sells well
- oblio 5y ago
  And once that takes off, think of Google, for example, they also build another 1000 external products and 10000 internal apps.

dagw 5y ago

I've worked on some seriously "low-impact" internal tools at large companies, and the pay was fine.

KronisLV 5y ago
Aren't large and well paying companies a bit of an exception in many cases? For example, here in Latvia we don't quite have such a large tech scene, outside of WITCH companies. Thus, it feels like that argument isn't entirely valid in all that many circumstances.

handrous 5y ago

You've forgotten about the effect of investment. Work on a team doing contract early-stage development for funded (that's important) startups and greenfield "experimental" projects for larger corporations and you can work on four projects in one year, zero of which ever see enough ROI to pay back just your personal pay. And then do it again the next year. The end result is that you feel like a tiny part of some weird, random, extremely expensive process to (rarely) create successful new businesses. Like part of a living pachinko machine that burns cash. But you can get paid plenty for it!