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thanks for your reply. I do not disagree with what you said, however I do not understand,i.e., how other folks landed a job as VP of Engineering, in ~20-40 peop

thanks for your reply. I do not disagree with what you said, however I do not understand,i.e., how other folks landed a job as VP of Engineering, in ~20-40 people startups. Like, is it a critical timing factor? Do you have to be in a certain circle or know the founders? As part of my processess I managed to talk to VPs or CTOs and -my fault maybe- I could not really understand what at least half of those people bring to the table both in technical and/or management terms.

ahmadmijot 4y ago
I've been parachuted to become a founder of a startup, holding a C suite title. From my experiences, in the beginning yes you need to be in a certain circle, know the founders or just become one (founder or VP position). This is a route for someone (like me) who didn't have prior experience in top managerial level in a startup/company.
- rodentflamingo 4y ago
  thank you for sharing your experience, that is also a route I am considering (not out of reactivess lol) however it would require a different kind of effort (visa and such). What "professionally hurts" me more is that my current management experiences seems to be disregarder in favor of my technical background. Either I am being delusional at this point, even though I am pretty sure I can bring quite a lot to a startup in terms of org and growth, or I am not reading this right (and I am thankful for the replies in this post that are helping my observing this situation from a different angles)