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This is hard. Early in your career, I'd say stay where your at. Most of us will never get to FAANG and you have no idea if this startup will make it. Plus if

This is hard. Early in your career, I'd say stay where your at. Most of us will never get to FAANG and you have no idea if this startup will make it. Plus if they're hiring you as the lead engineer for the company that's a major red flag. You bring in experienced people before junior devs. I wouldn't do it, the vast majority of startups fail or sell for less than they took in investment. Don't assume you'll get rich Reverse it, say your at a startup and a FAANG offered you double the pay. What would you do ?

hemloc_io 5y ago
Ha yeah for sure not assuming I'll get rich, probably just overworked. :D Also I wouldn't be the only engineer they're planning on hiring around ~10 or so and I have prev experience in the field they're building for. So I'd say I'm more of an intermediate dev. Probably leave, depending on how well the startup is going, two in the hand and all that. That said my general goal at FAANG has been to meet people + stack cash and learn to eventually start my own thing. (And not be homeless if it doesn't work out lol.) So if this startup pays eq/similar comp in cash and not monopoly money I'd say sure, just not sure of the quirks of working at a seed company hah.