Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs

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by KKKKkkkk1 • 7 years ago

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hanging• 7 years ago

(2012)

I agree. And I'd add that there are corporate jobs that end up being less stressful and "more sexy"TM than many startup jobs who start with a spirit only to later discover the culture speech was all BS and, at most, a "reality distortion field" to keep an illusion going.

ecf• 7 years ago

I’d like to hope all startups aren’t like this, but the incessant talk about culture and values at my last one could only be interpreted as USSR-type propaganda.

draw_down• 7 years ago

I agree with all this (except I don’t understand the need to use the word “sexy” so many times), and it’s probably more true today than when it was written.

Lottery tickets do sometimes hit, though. :)

jimhi• 7 years ago

The main reason to take a role at a startup "crappy" or not is to leapfrog your title. Want to be a Product Manager or Growth lead or Senior role? You can immediately at a startup and even if it fails, you have that on your resume for the same role elsewhere.

Just take a look at the titles you want at all the unicorn companies and see where their careers started out.

Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs

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