>They are usually building production systems. This is completely false. Most startups go through massive pivots. I’ve been through 6 of them (2 successful exi

>They are usually building production systems. This is completely false. Most startups go through massive pivots. I’ve been through 6 of them (2 successful exits) and literally everyone made drastic changes to every code base to target completely different markets and features. I’m telling you from experience, if you can’t recognize providing business value as an engineer recognizing opportunity cost, you will stagnate as a junior engineer or even destroy the company as a senior one.