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WOW! After reading this article, I feel so incredibly happy that I work for "BigCo". I already like where I am quite a bit, but this article made me appreciat
by Paul_D_Santana 14y ago
WOW!
After reading this article, I feel so incredibly happy that I work for "BigCo".
I already like where I am quite a bit, but this article made me appreciate it an extra order of magnitude.
I think I will read this article once a month so I can feel grateful for what I see now as an incredible company and work environment.
Does anyone else feel the same way? Sometimes I wonder how few of us "BigCo" employees there are here on HN.
- derefr 14y agoI'm starting to think I'd like to work for BigCo. Not to stay--but because it's very hard to be both an employee of a startup, while also bootstrapping your own startup. BigCo + bootstrapping seems much simpler. But as far as I'm aware, from most BigCos' perspectives, I'm unemployable; autodidact [no CS degree] + living in Canada. So, I guess it's back to looking for a job at another startup while trying to eek out time on my own...
- jaggederest 14y agoI work at a large corporation that does not particularly care about international borders, and I have no degree. It can be done.
- userulluipeste 14y agoEven if you aren't working in a startup, you should also be happy for the fact that startups exist in abundance (even if low-quality). If it wasn't for these, it would have been the buyer's market (with you as your personal efforts' salesman) dictated by demand of a few players. It is the startups that are preventing a plunge in tech employee's value on the market.