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For starters, the article is mistitled. A more accurate one would be "10 opinions About Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company". Although "platitudes" might b
by j_baker 15y ago
For starters, the article is mistitled. A more accurate one would be "10 opinions About Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company". Although "platitudes" might be even more accurate than "opinions".
But there's one thing in particular that annoys me here:
And by the way, if you’re a good engineer you’ll have zero issue finding another job. Zero.
You'all have zero issues finding a new job if you're a good interviewee, but not necessarily if you're a good engineer. I know lots of people (myself included) who are at least decent engineers but terrible interviewees.
- eitally 15y agoThe ironic thing is that you'd probably have zero issues finding a job at a BigCo, which don't often use the same interrogation techniques as startups and tech companies.
- natesm 15y agoI've only had one job search so far, but I got much more "where do you see yourself in X years" and "tell me about a time..." nonsense at larger companies. Startups were much more interested in what I had done, and they actually looked at my Github account.
- alex_lod 15y agoI'd hire you if you were a good engineer but not a good interviewee :). My hope would be that a good interviewer can see through an interview in the same way that a good teacher gives good grades to good students, not good test takers.
- diego 15y agoIf you can tell that a bad interviewee is a good engineer, you've cracked the elusive interview code that everyone has been trying to figure out for decades. A teacher has an ongoing relationship with a student, so time is on their side. An interview is the opposite.
- koos42 15y agoHiring a good engineer that is a bad interviewee is the responsibility of the interviewer. A sufficiently good interviewer should be able to pull the necessary info out of a bad interviewee.
- krupan 15y agoMake friends with other good engineers that are good interviewees. They will teach you some skills, and give personal references for you at their companies when you need a job. Personal references are going to get you the really good jobs, not applying online and going through the standard interview process.
- timr 15y agoThat's not really true. At good companies you're still going to need to interview, even with a strong reference. You may not need to prove yourself technically as much as someone who comes in cold, but you always need to prove that you're a good cultural fit for the team.