Is it better to work at a big company or a startup?
Is it better to work at a big company or a startup?
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Startup if you're just starting, big company once you get more experience.
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Basically at startup you'd be able to learn more. They usually use the latest meme technology so your learning would be more up to date with whatever is trending. Also they probably don't really have many people so you'd be able to wear many hats and learn a lot of different things. Once you get better, you moved out to a more established company for better pay, job security, and work-life balance.
Is the stuff harder in big firms than in startups?
no its just different tech, pay, culture and people. The difficulty is mostly dictated by the product, the company/startup builds and the age of the existing codebase.
As someone who's build multiple startups i can attest to this. When building a startup, especially in the first year, you're basically on a timer. You get the product out of the door in time, or your funding runs out sooner or later. One can push back this deadline, by raising more venture capital. Quality is often less important than having a checkmark on a given feature. Fixing it later is always an option. If you are autistic about your code quality or test coverage, you're rarely the right person for very early stage development in a startup.
>Basically at startup you'd be able to learn more.
For breadth yes, but for depth no.
Startups are for losers who aren't good enough to get into big corporates. If you only work at startups in your career I wouldn't want to work with you, because you have no expertise and can't get things done right.
Startups also have lower standards
NTA, but a startup is high risk and hopefully good payoff. It is likely to crash, and you are more able to handle that when you are early in your career before getting wife, children, morgage etc.
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The other way around actually
>t. been there done that
This anon is right. I started in a startup and was working almost alone most of the time. It threw me in the deep end and I had to figure out a lot of shit on my own. It was stressful, but hugely eye-opening. Now I work for a bank and make good money and it's pretty comfy. I would have to say nagger in the chat multiple times before they could even try to fire me.
Still learning a lot, just with less stress and at a slightly slower pace. Learning on my own now since I have the time.
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i worked in a startup for a couple of years and learned tons of shit on my own, but then moved up to a major bank, although i feel generally busier now
though i'm getting paid better and my living situation has improved, and finally getting used to the company culture helped a lot
worst things about startups are very inconsistent pace (sometimes there'll be few client requests, sometimes you'll be sleeping in the office) often changing within the span of a week, and that many of them are filled with newfags and charlatans who cant teach anything of value beyond simple shit. big companies are better for learning real shit and advancing a career
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Choose big company, always. Better money, less pressure. Also, usually more interesting projects, because big corpos can afford experimenting in R&D.
>Startup
Lots of involvement and overtime is expected from you. On the other side, you will learn a lot and if you are really lucky, your coworkers will be your same age and will be like your group of friends. My brother is in this situation, happier than ever.
>Big company
More flexibility, more money. You can get away with doing the bare minimum.
Pretty much this. Big corporate is very comfy, but also incredibly soulless. Opportunities for learning and moving up may also be limited as everyone is pigeonholed into specific roles and silos. Im at a corpo now and i miss the cameraderie and banter of working in small business.
startups have less money to spend and therefore are less likely to employ women or have a HR department so startups are better
It's better to own a startup.
Take the small non-startup company pill
I've worked in shit corps for 3 years (Deloitte, Uber) and I miss working in a startup so much
I would be starting ui/ux in some hipster company, mentorship is an effective way of cutting the excess and focusing on real things
You want a big corporation, but not a meme one. Like the guy who says Deloitte, Uber etc are shit, of course they are. You want an engineering outfit, you probably won't know the name until you research the market. Lets say 20-50 thousand employees. Thats the sweet spot if you want good pay stability and no stupid shit.
Startups are for utter fucking homosexuals, I'm so sick of this meme its not even funny never working for any again
Ideally it's better to not work at all and just be rich.
Other than that, big companies pay the bill for me.