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Are you kidding me? Smaller companies will use you to make mistakes and learn. And when they can't support something because of resources then you bear the cons
by _8j50 4y ago
Are you kidding me? Smaller companies will use you to make mistakes and learn. And when they can't support something because of resources then you bear the consequences. Nice notion but not a rule of thumb in my opinion. Mega corps like google are terrible as well. Newish companies that have been in the industry a few years are the rule of thumb unless you can afford to be their guineapig/stepping-stone.
- echelon 4y ago> Smaller companies will use you to make mistakes and learn. And the big ones don't ever do this? You're probably shielded from the jira ticket backlogs that are thousands deep. While there's no hard and fast rule, small companies tend to care more, as they're closer to the pain. A loss of a customer isn't just "churn". We should strive to have at least four to six alternatives for every type of system. It keeps pricing competitive, gives users lots of alternatives, and prevents single players from strong arming behavior. Right now there are too many monopolies and duopolies in tech.
- _8j50 4y agoI agree with the last part of your post but I think you misunderstood what I meant by smaller, I meant small because they are new not because they haven't grown yet. It is unavoidable for new companies to have growing pains, doesn't matter how much they want to please customers. Once they have developed some maturity with their staff the "jira backlogs" will be prioritized right because their staff has learned from outages they caused because they did not understand what different aspects of your product mean to each customer.