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You aren't necessarily wrong, but the data also isn't there - one engineering hire bouncing per year is not really significant. I do think that startups are pr
by swiftcoder 6d ago
You aren't necessarily wrong, but the data also isn't there - one engineering hire bouncing per year is not really significant.
I do think that startups are pretty rough when it comes hiring. We don't pay BigTech salaries, we expect engineers to wear a lot of hats, and we don't offer the kind of management chain isolation a big company does. It takes a particular kind of engineer to enjoy/thrive in that environment, and a lot of engineers transitioning from big companies don't realise the extent of that until they've struggled with their first startup role.
- verzali 5d agoAlso the engineers that do manage in that environment tend to get screwed anyway when you scale up.
- DanielHB 5d agoI dunno, I found that kind of environment a lot easier to work with. The really hard environments are when the tech teams are large, to get something done you need to talk to 3 different teams and get them all to agree to do something and _when_ they are going to do it. And that is just when you can talk to the engineers directly, it gets worse when you need to escalate on the management chain. Startups are easier because most of the time you usually only need one rubberstamp (and sometimes none!) to do something. It gets much worse though once the startup scales up and becomes massive. Then it tends to be worse than big corps because there at least they have processes.