I worked at ~6 startups for about 10 years before google.
What do I have to show for it?
A slight beer belly and less motivation to build something from the ground up yet again only to see it burn down. Yeah, I had a ton of fun too.
Would I trade all those years at startups for going straight to google? eeh, maybe 4 of them.
On the other hand though, I don't think I would have made it through the interview without knowing a lot of random shit I learned at startups.
Also being a dad and working at a startup does not mix well.
Interesting. Maybe FAANG's do so well in SV because they have a nice pipeline of startup burnouts who learn all this weird shit that you only learn from working at startups for a decade, and then finally end up in FAANG's, use all their wisdom to build even better systems....
Would I trade all those years at startups for going straight to google? eeh, maybe 4 of them. On the other hand though, I don't think I would have made it through the interview without knowing a lot of random shit I learned at startups.
Also being a dad and working at a startup does not mix well.