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It's more than just dealing with hackers. It's the overall scope of having to be responsible for critical work under heavy scrutiny. Most companies have a myria
by silverbax88 12y ago
It's more than just dealing with hackers. It's the overall scope of having to be responsible for critical work under heavy scrutiny. Most companies have a myriad of technologies...that isn't just the domain of startups. In fact, normally, startups have much more specialization. If you work as a coder at a big company, you might have to know Java, C++, .NET, PHP, Oracle, SQL Server, plus a million other things like old mainframe, COBOL, lisp, assembly, Ruby, Python...it depends on the job.
In a startup, you can say 'we only support Chrome and FireFox' and often no one will question it. But in a big corporation, you don't often get to pick which things you 'won't learn'. Some companies still use freaking IE6 (some very VERY big companies) so if you want your jQuery to work with their app, you'd better know why using anything higher than 1.11.x is a bad idea in general.