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I live in Southern California where there was no shortage (until recently, at least) of very early-stage startups, and for years I exclusively used startup-focu
by dkh 3y ago
I live in Southern California where there was no shortage (until recently, at least) of very early-stage startups, and for years I exclusively used startup-focused sites like AngelList (now Wellfound) when jobhunting. The largest startup had 12 people when I joined. I worked for a company of 40ish once, but they weren't primarily a tech company and engineering consisted of only 3 people.
I should perhaps disclaim that while this worked perfectly for me for close to a decade and I was never without work for more than a couple weeks at a time, I have currently been unemployed for a few months and have had a considerably more difficult time than at any point in the past.
- TylerE 3y agoGoing with, in general, a company with less than 50 employees doesn't have to meet many of the requirements larger ones do when it comes to things like the FMLA.
- dkh 3y agoYeah but the demand for talent was such that, for at least a long time, the benefits and perks at startups usually exceeded those of the bigger companies. This may not be the case now, but I still think what you describe is not true often enough to be considered a general truism
- TylerE 3y agoNot true enough? It’s literally how the laws are written. They exempt companies with fewer than X employees, where X is almost always 50