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I don't agree with any of the points - that you'll necessarily work on interesting stuff at a startup, that a big company means you'll not work on interesting s
by rdouble 14y ago
I don't agree with any of the points - that you'll necessarily work on interesting stuff at a startup, that a big company means you'll not work on interesting stuff, or that startups form a safety net. Glass, Kinect, AWS and iOS devices are pretty interesting, and they all occurred inside of a large company.
In contrast, I remember a lot of dealing with server crashes, browser incompatibilities and other painful and boring stuff when I worked at startups. It also seems like many of my startup co-workers who were older than about age 35 seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth.
- wilfra 14y ago"Glass, Kinect, AWS and iOS are pretty interesting, and they all occurred inside of a large company." If you are lucky enough to be working on those sorts of projects when they are still small, secret teams - you'd be an exception. 99% of people working at BigCorp are not on such projects.
- wallflower 14y agoIf you've never read the epic Steve Yegge rant on Amazon, the true story of Amazon as a Platform is quite fascinating. "That's what Bezos was up to with his edict, of course. He didn't (and doesn't) care even a tiny bit about the well-being of the teams, nor about what technologies they use, nor in fact any detail whatsoever about how they go about their business unless they happen to be screwing up. But Bezos realized long before the vast majority of Amazonians that Amazon needs to be a platform." https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...