Let me genuinely encourage you to try to find a job at a very early stage startup. I hear these horror stories about PMs/managers/etc., but I've yet to really e

Let me genuinely encourage you to try to find a job at a very early stage startup. I hear these horror stories about PMs/managers/etc., but I've yet to really experience them. I suspect that's because I usually join companies of <50 people. The engineers care about getting things right, the PMs care about getting things right, and management is well aligned with everybody, because there's little to no hierarchy. The only time I've really had management "misuse, misunderstand, or misrepresent your estimate" is once they got past the point of being several hundred people with the bureaucracy that entails. Then I leave and go to a startup that's <50 people.