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An A player from Google will fail at a 10 person startup. An A player from a 10 person startup will choke on FAANG bureaucracy and fail. Fit matters. You would
by Swizec 4y ago
An A player from Google will fail at a 10 person startup. An A player from a 10 person startup will choke on FAANG bureaucracy and fail.
Fit matters. You wouldn't hire Jim Carey for a DiCaprio role.
- mooreds 4y agoThis is an underappreciated truth. The corollary is: find out where you thrive and go there. Don't beat yourself up if you get spun out of a FAANG, or a startup or a smallco or a bootstrap or a founding role or a mid-tier enterprise. Don't contort to a role or company that isn't a fit. If you have solid skills, you can find a place.
- albertgoeswoof 4y agoYou obviously haven’t seen eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- Swizec 4y agoI have. Pretty sure I've seen every movie he was in, huge fan. He's a great actor, but he hasn't shown the range that other A-listers have. Whether that's because of skill, interest, or typecasting, I couldn't say.
- rockostrich 4y agoKind of dumb to say an actor that's clearly proven he has immense range when there are so many other obvious choices. Vin Diesel for example is an A-list star who clearly does not have anywhere the range that Carrey or DiCaprio have.
- lencastre 4y agoBestest movie together with Lost in Translation
- googlryas 4y agoCan I guess you're between 37 and 42 years old.
- pryelluw 4y agoJim Carey as the protagonist of titanic does sound like a great movie. I’m sure he would have found space on that piece of wood and survived.
- kingforaday 4y agoI saw this over the holiday period last month. James Cameron commissioned a study because he got sick of people yelling at him for killing Jack. https://www.insider.com/james-cameron-had-forensic-analysis-done-on-titanic-door-scene-2022-12 https://www.insider.com/james-cameron-had-forensic-analysis-...
- neilv 4y ago> "We took two stunt people who were the same body mass of Kate and Leo and we put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods and the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive," he said. This is peak underappreciated stuntpeople.
- rockostrich 4y agoSpeaking in absolutes is never useful even though I think this advice might apply when looking for a new role, but small companies tend to grow if you help them succeed so it would be difficult to say your fit is at 10 person companies when that means you would have to jump ship every year just to stay in your comfort zone. I joined my current company when it was 40 people (and around 10 developers). Almost 6 years later we're ~1500 and the engineering org is something like 200-300. I think I was most comfortable around 20 or so developers but that doesn't mean I can't make continue to have meaningful impact now that there's an order of magnitude more people and the org has completely changed. I've seen folks who were supposedly "A player"s from small start-ups and FAANG join the company at different stages. Some succeed and some fail but I never noticed any correlation between current size of the company they're currently thriving at and our size when they joined. Fit is never going to be perfect so don't give up on something just because it might be a little uncomfortable. Give up if you've tried to make it work and it's clear you can't find a way to have impact.
- eldritch_4ier 4y ago"Speaking in absolutes is never useful" is a great paradox