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Sharad Raj (He/Him)
Sharad Raj (He/Him)

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Do you work at a startup ?

Share your experience of working for a startup.

One Pro and One Con 🤔.
Is their any suggestion for the college students who wanna do Masters ?

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Jashua • Edited

Pro: You can easily get involved in the trajectory of the project
Con: Lower wage compared to bigger corporations
Neutral: You get to do a bit of everything

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

3rd one is the most faced

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Ben Halpern

Pro: Decent control over company success and personal career growth. If you're determined to take on a challenge it's a lot more likely you'll be able to do it in a startup vs big org. Get to learn what true failure can look like vs big org where everything's a bit abstracted away.
Con: Typically lower wages, but not always. Kind of depends. Probably less guidance/time from managers, need to figure things out on your own and be okay with having to retrace steps when direction was wrong.

Both environments have their own unique flavors of toxicity and abuse.

I think it's probably emotionally easier to leave a big corp if things aren't working out vs startups.

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Such a summarized experience ! xD

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shroomlife 🍄

Pro: great
Con: as long as it's not morphing into a company and thinks it has grown up

IMHO: Stop studying in universities for bachelors, masters and titles. Start studying for your life, work and passion! Start learning while living a grateful and joyful life. You can do everything!

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Woah Thanks !!!!!!!!!! :)

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Brad • Edited

Pro: Smaller team = more opportunities to learn
Con: Smaller team = more risk

There are a lot more pros and cons, but those are the two that stand out the most to me. If your young and starting out, its one of the better times to take on risk. Just be aware of all the horror stories of working at failing startups (90% of startups will fail), if you aren't getting paid $, and instead are getting paid in shares or something, then get out 😉

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Yeah I totally agree

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Abhay Goswami

Pros: learning experience is great.
Cons: Things goes to fast.

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Sharad Raj (He/Him) • Edited

Mach 3

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Abhay Goswami

Mark 3 ?

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

3 times the speed of sound 🙃

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Thank you Helen ... xD

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chonz0

Pro: get freedom to make choices (like framework, libraries, etc) and the chance to have a real impact on the product you are building

Con: it's probably you'd have to work extra during the week or even on weekends sometime. Also it's common for the startup to change direction on the go, so you must be prepared to follow without getting frustrated but excited

At least that was my experience so far in the last few years

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Extra time :( ... 😭

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Chathula Sampath

Pro: you can learn everything like development, devops and business model also.you can touch many things than a big company.there you will be a part of a process, here you can have a good control over the process.

Con: most of the times you will not get the yearly bonus ;)

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Seriously no bonus ???????

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Chathula Sampath

I don't tell no bonus, most of the times it is hard to get bonus as they are startups. (i only work with startups as i don't like to work on big companies, i haven't get bonus from any of the startups i worked.)

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Adam Crockett 🌀 • Edited

I work for a 10yr old company with a startup mindset. Now that's what I call perfect.

I didn't study cs I studied fine art and fell into development.

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Woah man... Never expected this......... Cooool

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Tanuj Nagpal

Pro: lots and lots of knowledge about computer science
Cons: No job security, Lower wages. but probably compensates to the knowledge but not enough when you got to earn a amount to at least support yourself!

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

A problem