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Is [rapidly growing and successful startup x] a pleasant place to work? FUCK NO You're growing fast. Everyone's overwhelmed and strained to their limits. Peo
by nobody_nowhere 14y ago
Is [rapidly growing and successful startup x] a pleasant place to work?
FUCK NO
You're growing fast. Everyone's overwhelmed and strained to their limits. People get bitchy and burn out. Systems fail. Corners are cut. Employees do the math on options and come up short.
Not pleasant. Pleasant and fast growth don't have a lot of overlap. Is it worth the ride? Everyone has to figure that out for themselves.
- rdl 14y agoI disagree -- plenty of fast growing teams and companies treat employees well, even during hyper-growth. Sure, it's a lot less stable than an established company, but what people are talking about in this Quora question doesn't seem to be related to growth. I know a fair number of people at Facebook during the 2006-2010 period (and some from 2005+), and they paid people well, didn't measure productivity by butt-in-seat hours, etc. Facebook was growing at least as fast as Square.
- nobody_nowhere 14y agoIn 2006 facebook was already more than 150 people from what i can tell... square pushed through that boundary much more recently -- that's the really painful bit