The Horrors of Startup Companies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2020
- In this video I go over some of the horrors of startup companies.
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Most start-ups are solving problems that never existed in the first place. And then they wonder why they fail.
Startup Companies be like: Yes, you need an 88 key piano and a solar pane built into your bicycle.
That nepotism line really hit... I worked a couple weeks for my uncle's startup and quickly realized I was underqualified. I spent workdays in the office LEARNING programming. I felt like I was wasting their resources, so I quit.
Forgot to mention in the video, meetings that should be emails. The bane of my existence...
This is also a good list on things to avoid when starting up your own company 😄
If you want a trans employee, just hire enough programmers and wait. It's only a matter of time.
Here's a crazy idea: no need for an office space. You would save so much money letting people work from home!
I could write a book on the startup I worked for. It didn't do much of the crazy spending, but the aspect of it where it was all run by family members was where things got seriously squirrelly. You had one family member stealing from the company while people were getting wrongfully blamed and fired for it, another couple of them attempted a hostile takeover of the company, another was having an affair in the office (literally). At the same time, finances were so tight we in the manufacturing division were tearing up paper towels sheets into 16+ tiny pieces to clean equipment but then the company would throw these lavish luncheons for sales staff that cost more than they were paying me in 6 months. Another executive got so angry at me, once, over something super petty and unimportant (they had temper issues), that I was pulled back into the warehouse and chewed out by this exec while they clenched their fists and huffed like a raging bull. It was bizarre.
My buddy started working at Snowflake 2 years ago, he is now a millionaire. He turned down a job from Microsoft and was nervous about making that decision. If you are young and have nothing to lose, join a startup. You’ll wear a lot of hats
My boss bought a $15 coffee maker two years ago. Should I be worried?
you know a startup is actually gonna take off when they have a dedicated cocaine table
First Internship was a startup
I can totally relate to this:
1. Unpaid overtime is an unspoken requirement.
Diversity Hiring makes me cringe so much. I was in a meet with an artist that would work with me (technically under me but I don't care about such distinctions) and she had an amazing portfolio, seemed very competent and friendly, was vibing well with us on the call, perfect schedule despite being on another country - her hiring was all but guaranteed, but our boss just had to throw the "And of course it's important to have more women for diversity of...." line at the end. Followed by some 5 seconds of awkward silence as everyone wondered how to respond to that besides nodding and letting it go.
Best and hardest jobs to get imo are mid-sized companies that have been around since the Cretaceous era. Their margins are so well maintained it’s frightening, plus they generally pay well (just don’t expect a promotion).
Here's another red flag: Management has an inexplicable aversion to putting things in writing.
Hey, I worked at this company! Ping pong table, cool, fun atmosphere. Great events. And the CEO would frequently call the senior developers and make them work on random ideas he had at 1 AM. Also we kept building and rebuilding the same product that gained no traction with users for years on end. Then "randomly" 1/3 of the company (including me) got laid off and the company slogged along for 5 more months.
I have worked at a few tech startups and I agree that they are full of soul-less dead-eyed day-walkers. One tip I can give people is to always be on-guard whenever you get randomly pulled into a meeting with HR when you know you've done nothing to warrant anything like that. A company I worked at did this to me 6 months in, despite the fact I was one of the top engineers there in terms of money we were bringing in from projects. Watch out for the dreaded PIP, or Performance Improvement Plan. If you ever get ambushed by your managers & HR into a meeting where they try to gaslight you by telling you they aren't happy with your performance, but want to work with you to get better and just need you to sign this PIP to agree to it, don't do it. Never sign the PIP, even if you have been fucking off, because you're literally signing something that says you agree that you haven't been doing your job, which they will turn around and use as an excuse to fire you 30 days later with zero severance. The company I worked at 10ish year ago did this to ~100 of 250 people a month before they got bought out. After the merger, they laid off 150 people, including myself. However, I knew something was fishy in the meeting with HR and refused to sign the PIP, despite the fact they threatened to fire me right there if I didn't. I called their bluff and refused, the meeting eventually ending, and I didn't hear a word about any of the alleged complaints about my performance again. What I found out later was that they did this to a shitload of people, and those that signed it still got laid off after the merger, with only 2 weeks severance pay. I didn't sign shit, and I got 6 months. It pays to not take shit from HR.
Here, let me give you an entire 2 years of business school in 1 sentence.