FluffyWaffle

Startup VS Tech Giants

To the people who've experienced both ends of spectrum, as an new grad, which is better overall?

11mo ago

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FluffyCupcake

Amazon11mo

Depends on the stage of career, aspirations, risk abilities.

For example - In early stage, low risk, general aspirations, I would prefer BigTech. Remember risk isn’t zero here. You will learn in a more structured manner, about various functions and ways to handle big stuff.

In later stages, when you want to play Rohit sharma shots, startups would be ideal. Risk to Rewards would be high. You will have some workex under the belt to find opportunities elsewhere if startup game fails.

FluffyWaffle

Stealth11mo

Sure the learning will be structured, but will that be solid enough to fuel the knowledge required when starting your own ventures or working as founding member? I ask this because the notion around me seems to be: in big tech you don't learn as much as you would in a startup with your peace of mind being the tradeoff. What I'm getting at is, is that shitty work-life balance worth it later in career or I can(for all practical purposes) reach the same level learnings things gradually in a big tech?

FluffyCupcake

Amazon11mo

Why big tech pays so much if knowledge isn’t good enough?

CosmicLlama

Stealth11mo

I had the luck and the curse of working at both ends. Imo. The rule of thumb to be followed is as you accumulate YOE, the size of your company must get small. Meaning start you career with a MNC, bigger the better. When you reach sr. Roles prefer smaller orgs and startups.

The main reason is at the start of your career your role is also limited. So it doesn't make sense to take big pressure. At senior roles, the politics in bigger companies is also big .

Where are Startups, the pressure at lower level in heiraracy is very high. Just because they pay you top bucks they will expect you to fly planes and sail ships. On the other hand at Sr.. Roles, the politics is limited simply due to limited no. Of people. You have to deal with just 1 or 2 CXO. And not to mention you get top bucks just for shifting blame. And you may also get an opportunity to do some scam and earn even more.