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How small a world is Silicon Valley?
I recently heard about someone who was not made a job offer because he quit his last job in a bridge-burning manner, it made for a good story, and one of the people in the place he was applying to just happened to have heard it from a friend in the old company. Did he just get spectacularly unlucky, or is this sort of thing commoner than I imagine?
- brianm 15y agoSV is a very small world in my experience.
- tristan_louis 15y agoThe tech community is pretty small and Silicon Valley is even smaller. As a general rule, in any business, it is a bad idea to burn bridges. It's too small a world to do so and you are ultimately bound to bump into the people you wronged.
- zem 15y agoI was surprised because before moving to SV I spent the last six years working in Bangalore, and I cannot imagine this happening there unless someone proactively went digging for background info.
- googoobaby 15y agoBack when I lived there, it indeed was very common.