In startups, you at least get the freedom to move fast, build stuff and get recognition work your work. Being a cog in a big wheel just makes me squirm. Most of my work is politics and bureaucracy 🤮 Do you agree? #tech
How long have you worked in big corporates vs startups? What’s your yoe?
Too many years in both. 10 yoe.
To be honest, your post seems too naive. We cannot generalize by making the statements you’ve made in your post. With 10 yoe, I would assume you’d have seen enough to realize..
Porque no los dos? Find a startup at a big company.
What does the first bit even mean?
Why not both? Or something along those lines.
It's not start up vs big company. It's transformation work vs incremental work. Most work at big companies is incremental.
It's not even incremental. Most work in large companies is sideways at best, detrimental at worst. You got one life and you are spending it defending why you formatted a document one way vs another.
Come to FB. You will move fast, build stuff, get recognized and make money. Because if you don't you'll get fired. Also startups pay 🧻🥜. Disclaimer: worked at 6 startups.
I hear I'll need to work through tech debt created by 12 years of "move fast and break things". Not interested.
Your loss if you think the echo chamber only echoes truth
Worked on a startup before, as part owner and lead developer. I love the fast pace and building requirements but it does get dull when you’ve delivered your product and you start working on improvements you don’t have control with but to just do it
There is something special about being in the trenches with a small group of people and trying to take on the world. I've made lifelong friends at a startup. I have made a few acquaintances at Google.
When the mission is strong and people are kind, work doesn't feel like work. Everyday is play. In larger companies, vested interests take over.
My team at FB feels like a startup. Most of what you describe. But to do that we had to deal with corporate bs and make the space, which is quite stressful in itself. So yeah .. wish I was at a startup with people like these and maybe paid the same lol
You are correct,I've worked in a couple large corps and yes its boring
This is the narrative startups use to pay you less money for more work.
Yeah they are better in every way except that they pay you in monopoly money IOUs
Startups can have a lot of politics too. But it is true that it's usually harder to survive with all talks and no work in a startup.
Politics exist everywhere. It's just more stifling in a larger company. Too many mediocre cooks. Most just want their tag their name on something successful. Oh don't forget to format your documents to 5 levels of management's liking.
Heh there might be more mediocre cooks in startups...