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Ask HN: Should I take job as a EDA software Developer at Big Tech?
I'm currently working as a ML engineer in life sciences (macro molecule simulation) at a semiconductor startup. They're making compute specific to Life sciences, eventually want to make end to end solution. I'm not sure about the success of the startup, but work is challenging. I'm still beginning of my career.
- gtirloni 3y agoSince you're early in your career, a startup is the best place to learn and it seems you're doing really interesting work. Big tech is the opposite of interesting. You'll drown in office politics, something you probably don't experience that much at the startup. Scalability challenges are better but landing on such teams is tricky. Considering there is no evidence for the need for ML engineers to ever go down, I'd say you be fine if this startup goes belly up. I've done my tour at big corp and, personally, I'd like to avoid them for the time being. My very first job was at a startup, first employee. Still one of the best experiences I ever had.
- braunhaus 3y agoI'm also in the same position. Feels that this small company is much more technical and agile in term of management. Is it really that bad for the big tech ? Don't they have much more resources to allocate (spending on project, R&D etc.) ? .....If its really that bad, when is the 'right time/moment' to go there ??
- surya_sai 3y agoThe CEO already sold another company then deployed the capital in new company. He has total control over the company without external investors. So company's not that agile (150+ people). I feel that it's not a typical startup where whole teams are running towards something. Multiple projects which I worked on till now have stalled. My company's vision is not clear. They're dabbling on many projects. My colleagues who're good also want to move out of the company eventually. So I'm thinking to take up the Big Tech job. Then work on side projects to get back into an agile startup. Is it a bad decision?