Working in Tech startups

[therealdope]

Based on my experience, move to a giant company that pays you more even though you are doing less.

You forgot the part about "so thy can suck the life out of you".

I much prefer the risk and reward of start ups. It's not for everyone.

 

[Spounman]

A temp agency got me a job at one and I quit after a week. First off it was a hybrid position, I'd be in the office 3 days and home 2 days. Well on my first day they said I had to be in the office full time for at least 6 months. Then I find out they hired 2 people for my position and they wanted us working together in a conference room for our entire shift every day. There weren't cubicles either, everything was set up like a makeup counter at a department store. So my space was basically a counter spot lined up with 4 other people. Final straw was they were giving me homework every day. I was hourly and every evening right around time to go home, I'd get an email asking for all this stuff to be completed for the following morning. Fuck all that, after a week I never went back.

Maybe I was spoiled at other tech company's but working at Tesla and others was so much better its not even comparable.

 

[Spounman]

Ai is making you all irrelevant. Only gonna get worse. Better learn a trade quick.

It's true. After working in tech for 15 years, I was burned out and my buddy introduced me to his best friend who owned his own general contracting business. He hired me to do all the tech, finances, legal, office admin stuff. I'd even pick up materials and learn what our labor guys were doing and how to do it. Great job and experience.

 

[TeTe]

Ai is making you all irrelevant. Only gonna get worse. Better learn a trade quick.

I'd rather trade the markets full time

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

I've done both; and recently done both at the same time (work for a large publicly traded company and do side work for a start up ive invested in years ago).

Depends all on what you're doing and how it stimulates you. I love doing large projects with plenty of resources at my disposal. Having access to next gen applications is way more available at larger and more established companies. However, we just landed major contracts with the smaller start up that is really bearing fruit. So it is exciting creating something from the floor up and watching it succeed.

Best advice is either way, never stop professional development and get every cert you can.

 

[TheTickG]

You forgot the part about "so thy can suck the life out of you".

I much prefer the risk and reward of start ups. It's not for everyone.

At this point, I've spent more time in startups than in giant corporations, some of which became quite successful.

I've seen life sucking happen to just as many people in a startups. I've also found plenty of lively active people doing good things in giant corporations.

Life sucking is much more about what you allow a company to take from you regardless of its size nor its stage in the business life cycle.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

A temp agency got me a job at one and I quit after a week. First off it was a hybrid position, I'd be in the office 3 days and home 2 days. Well on my first day they said I had to be in the office full time for at least 6 months. Then I find out they hired 2 people for my position and they wanted us working together in a conference room for our entire shift every day. There weren't cubicles either, everything was set up like a makeup counter at a department store. So my space was basically a counter spot lined up with 4 other people. Final straw was they were giving me homework every day. I was hourly and every evening right around time to go home, I'd get an email asking for all this stuff to be completed for the following morning. Fuck all that, after a week I never went back.

Maybe I was spoiled at other tech company's but working at Tesla and others was so much better its not even comparable.

I despise staffing/temp agencies and it's not even funny. The whole ideology behind staffing companies is to reduce the cost of said workforce and to mitigate risk to another entity. Then you got the agency themselves whose job is to sell you whatever Mickey mouse McDonald's job nobody wants to do. So they will tell you they believe you are a great fit for this job. It's a great opportunity etc etc. Chances are they don't even know what the job entails. But whatever it takes to get you to sign the line.

I've only worked through two staffing agencies in my lifetime and have dealt with several and It's safe to say every single interaction was terrible. They treated me and every other poor unfortunate soul who walks through their doors desperately looking for a job like a piece of s***.

I never, ever, want to deal with staffing agencies ever again. Whatever they are trying to sell you probably isn't worth it. Six months from now they could tear up your contract and you'll be out on the street begging for another ^opportunity^

 

[therealdope]

At this point, I've spent more time in startups than in giant corporations, some of which became quite successful.

I've seen life sucking happen to just as many people in a startups. I've also found plenty of lively active people doing good things in giant corporations.

Life sucking is much more about what you allow a company to take from you regardless of its size nor its stage in the business life cycle.

I have no doubt. I guess I'm looking at it from the founder perspective.

 

[Berserker13]

Telling the truth is blasphemous to these backwards heathens

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Even if I'm making the most money in my career after being regularized in this new job, it's the same ol' shitty situation.

I'm coding and I have to pause every few minutes because I can't pay attention completing a project that is the result of a lack of foresight by management. I'm about a quarter efficient compared to myself before the pandemic. WFH sucks ass.

I am telling myself that I can use this experience automating shitty MS Excel processes to maybe work for a hedge fund or prop trading firm in the future. Either that or maybe I can stop working fulltime after the crypto bull run.

 

[Tank_Kam]

Ai is making you all irrelevant. Only gonna get worse. Better learn a trade quick.

For now its making me better I do consulting for project management at the government and at a tech start up, since I started using ChatGPT a few months ago, I haven't really done any of my own work. That being said, I do agree that this isn't going to last forever and my job will definitely get replaced by AI.

 

[shadowmanifold]

Instead of spending 2008 to 2020 something in a depression we flooded the system with liquidity in 2008.

This set us on an alternate economic path that to get ahead you need to kind of win the lottery. Since only low IQ people still play the state run lottery we needed to think of "smarter" lottery games as a society.

The "smart" lottery is startups and crypto.

You work at a startup hoping you have a winning ticket.

Of course, an entire horseshit culture has built up around this in time that is pretending to save the world while actually just playing the lottery.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Bump.

I am nearly done with working in Tech, or at least the typical idea of working in Tech as a regular 9 to 5 employee. I have spoken to my manager so that he can prepare for me leaving my current firm later this year.

I worked in IT for a few years then I went to grad school 5 years ago for Data Science and ever since graduating during the pandemic, I hopped from one job to another. I always learned a good deal in my different jobs even if I stay for a short time, but I never really liked any of it.

In this path, I found good source of income but not fulfillment. I always seem to grind my teeth even at simple tasks, and even when I deliver some pretty innovative/cost-saving workflows it always seem thankless. I'm nearly a year into this current job and I am being considered for a management position which five years ago seemed impossible, but after some assessment, I don't want it.

I don't want to wake up and drag myself to log in when I WFH or go to the office if I need to attend a Committee meeting any more. I need to gain a footing into a career I can do for the next 20 years if I need to.

I am gonna be freelancing for my friends in the industry - choosing tasks I know I can deliver well, and trying out being a part-timer Amazon PPC specialist. I actually thought of going this route since graduating but had trouble in getting clients, and feared not having a steady source of income. But all of that is done - I am being a freelancer/part-time consultant/digital nomad or bust.

 

[High Test With da Best]

For now its making me better I do consulting for project management at the government and at a tech start up, since I started using ChatGPT a few months ago, I haven't really done any of my own work. That being said, I do agree that this isn't going to last forever and my job will definitely get replaced by AI.

Do you worry about your skills getting rusty?

 

[Michaelangelo]

Anyone got a job for me? - I'm Bay Area and looking!

Are you still looking?

 

[TheNinja]

Are you still looking?

Thankfully no. I found an amazing job. I appreciate the quote and reply. I’d like to help others as well who may be looking or have questions or need advice from my experiences

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Bump.

I am nearly done with working in Tech, or at least the typical idea of working in Tech as a regular 9 to 5 employee. I have spoken to my manager so that he can prepare for me leaving my current firm later this year.

I worked in IT for a few years then I went to grad school 5 years ago for Data Science and ever since graduating during the pandemic, I hopped from one job to another. I always learned a good deal in my different jobs even if I stay for a short time, but I never really liked any of it.

In this path, I found good source of income but not fulfillment. I always seem to grind my teeth even at simple tasks, and even when I deliver some pretty innovative/cost-saving workflows it always seem thankless. I'm nearly a year into this current job and I am being considered for a management position which five years ago seemed impossible, but after some assessment, I don't want it.

I don't want to wake up and drag myself to log in when I WFH or go to the office if I need to attend a Committee meeting any more. I need to gain a footing into a career I can do for the next 20 years if I need to.

I am gonna be freelancing for my friends in the industry - choosing tasks I know I can deliver well, and trying out being a part-timer Amazon PPC specialist. I actually thought of going this route since graduating but had trouble in getting clients, and feared not having a steady source of income. But all of that is done - I am being a freelancer/part-time consultant/digital nomad or bust.

A recruiter from a big company asked if I would like to be considered for a role. A buddy of mine is working for this company, it will be a public company sometime in the future so I can join and gain pre-IPO equity which would be pretty sweet. But knowing myself, I'll probably last a year before I give myself some reasons on why I should quit. Maybe I can ask in the interview if I can have an output based job where I don't necessarily need to clock in and out everyday, but I doubt it.

 

[chardog]

Do you worry about your skills getting rusty?

with the amount of mistakes chatgpt makes........... you're only slightly better than doing it yourself.... even the highly touted Grok4 produces mistakes, and a small mistake can turn into a monster, big mistakes can be catastrophic if the scope of the project isnt completely understood.

 

[High Test With da Best]

with the amount of mistakes chatgpt makes........... you're only slightly better than doing it yourself.... even the highly touted Grok4 produces mistakes, and a small mistake can turn into a monster, big mistakes can be catastrophic if the scope of the project isnt completely understood.

Yep, I bet a lot of folks use it without fully vetting what it comes up with and could be missing mistakes they then have to own as their own. Seems awfully risky

 

[chardog]

Yep, I bet a lot of folks use it without fully vetting what it comes up with and could be missing mistakes they then have to own as their own. Seems awfully risky

The reason I use it is because it can make simple and clean code, for instance, I can give it to produce a piece of code that calls the database based on some parameters, lock for given id, update sql, move to the next, and include logger object for logging, and it does that framework very well, with notes, declarations, etc, and I may end up saving time on those repetitive operations.

The difference between the AI and a human, is that the AI isnt going to tell me when I have a problem that should be solved with well packaged data vs a problem that should be solved with software coding, and that's similar to entry level developers, they'll omit important factors of architecting the solution.