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by hackitup7 4y ago
If you read this: I would feel free to try to switch teams without anxiety, all else being equal. IME you can hop a few times without anyone thinking twice, especially early in your career. The point is that you just don't want to esta
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by hackitup7 4y ago
At least from my perspective your 3.5 year stint shows that you can stay for a while at one company, so personally I would probably not view your background as one of a "job hopper."
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Yeah, and in my experience it's also about the pattern. There isn't a rule or anything. 1-2 short stints, totally fine. 3-4 short stints but with one or more 5+ year stints, probably also fine. 5 jobs, never for more than 9 months
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by hackitup7 4y ago
"I have personally seen friends get filtered out of senior and executive opportunities for having “too many” short stints in their resume" I think this is great advice, and it runs counter to advice from sites like Blind that esse
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I really like this take. There are moralistic arguments to be made when it comes to compensation, and I personally have my own viewpoints on what is fair that are rooted in morality, but at the end of the day for the sorts of high-demand, h
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I've found that it also sets some really bad habits for the real world, particularly for the types of higher upside / capped downside scenarios that you often see in startups or some of the arts (eg trying to make it big as an act
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by hackitup7 4y ago
(I'm the OP) My Occam's razor guess is that they just didn't want to sell, and they could've remained independent via IPO so the price had to be very high to get it done. Another huge offer would be sufficient but not ne
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by hackitup7 4y ago
So smart for both Adobe and Figma. Figma posed a serious threat to Adobe and it makes sense for them to do it. The losers are all of us poor sods who were happy Figma customers. Just goes to show that if you want an outsized exit multiple t
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Very impressive to see how many people were able to walk away from these incidents, I wonder what the counts of injury or worse would look like without this system? Also it seems like these small planes have a lot of incidents, I'm gue
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Thank you, and thanks for reading! I haven't seen it written about much. I think that that's because much of the literature out there frankly does not come from people who have been in the trenches getting their asses kicked for y
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by hackitup7 4y ago
(I'm the author) The overall idea is that as you become more senior in an organization, your job is increasingly to be a general problem solver for the good of the entire business rather than a localized problem solver for your particu
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Layoffs suck but they're done to preserve the value of the overall entity, which includes the benefit of all remaining employees. You cut some jobs but it allows you to keep others.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Yeah that's brutal. The legendary Human Centipede Org Chart. Good luck..
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I know this might sound crazy but we're actually ex-Theranos. The miniseries was all lies. (thankfully joking) Thanks for reading! We've definitely made our share of mistakes too, but Stay SaaSy has been a helpful way to organize
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by hackitup7 4y ago
The most common situation is that you have a new manager who's building their team. This is easily fixed (keep hiring). Next most common situation is that someone wants to be a manager, and the company wants to support that purely for
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Co-author of OP here, cool to see this post come up again. An even more challenging situation that I've seen since is the 1-1-1 management system (manager manages 1 person, who in turn manages another). When that arises, you really nee
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by hackitup7 4y ago
I feel like everyone is freaking out because we went from almost unprecedentedly high tech valuations in 2021 back to ~historical norms today, which feels bad. Example: For all of the years that I was working in SaaS between 2008 - Covid, I
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Having seen this up close, it's mainly a combination of a strong growth mentality and willingness to adapt, plus survivorship bias. For the former, a lot of company scaling isn't really that hard - it's hard because it's
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by hackitup7 4y ago
* Put the post into Google Docs if it isn't there already * Turn on Suggest Changes so they can reject or ask questions more easily * ASK THEM what sort of feedback they want: "Do you want feedback on grammar/wording, overall
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Yeah I mean bad things can happen to anyone, but relatively speaking enterprise tends to be safer all else being equal. A great consumer company is still probably safer than a decent enterprise SaaS company. "losing a few big customers
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Historically enterprise SaaS with strong product/market fit has been (comparatively) safe. Companies tend to get hit in order of consumer > SMB > mid-market > enterprise. The above does not apply if you're a high burn org
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by hackitup7 4y ago
This is the process by which a high growth unprofitable company becomes a lower growth profitable company. It can be ugly but it's a transition that every company ostensibly needs to make. We're going to see a lot of this as the m
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Salesforce stock is down with the rest of the market and not as appealing as an acquisition tool as a result (they also paid a lot for slack). They also already play in Zendesk's space (eg service cloud) and tend to buy what they don&
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Not making any normative judgments on this policy change, but fwiw I expect that the note below is the real issue: "making the workplace more equitable (as Salesforce employees could not access this benefit)" If you're a long
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Cool, glad you enjoyed it (I enjoyed yours as well). The developer-first security angle is interesting – not sure if you include this in your categorization of security, but what I most frequently see SaaS companies / developers strugg
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Seems like these enterprise-in-a-box services are taking off and I like the role that they play in the ecosystem. That said there's a lot more to it than what Boxy offers – a lot of what enterprises need is about configurability and fl
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Had exactly the same reaction, every one of these projects is probably life changing for the founder(s). It's hard work but those stats are still way better and much more satisfying than a lottery ticket.
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by hackitup7 4y ago
Part of this story was adapted as part of the Vietnam war documentary Tropic Thunder, although they took some artistic license
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I'm a lead farmer!
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by hackitup7 4y ago
For what it's worth as someone senior who is sometimes the source of the urgent request, I actually want to be educated by the team I'm bringing it to. Blind adherence to urgent asks is actually an anti-pattern (even if it'

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