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No, it makes me more valuable to startups. I’m a 0 to 10 engineer, 10 to 50 is rough, 50 to 90 is boring and 90 to 100 is like watching paint dry for me. If yo
by MarkMarine 4y ago
No, it makes me more valuable to startups.
I’m a 0 to 10 engineer, 10 to 50 is rough, 50 to 90 is boring and 90 to 100 is like watching paint dry for me. If you want to be valuable for the startups that need 0 to 50, you need to wear some different hats.
You also need to know yourself. Figure out what you love in this and do that, you’ll never be burned out or bored. When I’m in the right place, I can happily code all night, do 2
Months of work in a day. When I hate my job, I struggle to create anything, it all feels like work.
- abrookewood 4y agoI think this is an important point. Generalists are more valuable at smaller companies where everyone has to perform multiple roles. I'm not sure where that stops being true though. I've been in a few startups now and at the 50-100 person mark, I think specialisation starts to become more important.
- tasuki 4y ago> When I’m in the right place, I can happily code all night, do 2 Months of work in a day. I know what you mean, but I'd be cautious making such statements. The other way to read this is that when you're in the right place you do one day of work in a day, and when you're in the wrong place, you do 1/40 of a day's work in a day...
- hansel_der 4y agoi am very cautious making statements about "a day's work" because i've seen a lot of devs that seem to be doing two days of work every day, the whole time. but they did not think enough, so a vast ammount of their "work" was waste anyway and discussing it also wasted other ppls time.
- MarkMarine 4y agoMeh. I think the people who hire at early stage startups understand this statement perfectly, and my work and references speak for themselves.