Corporation or Startup: Where to Work Better

    This topic constantly pops up in publications on Habré and discussions on specialized platforms and forums. We decided to briefly analyze the various opinions in this article. / Photo by Liam Matthews / CC More recently, one of the IT experts who has experience in the largest companies in the industry shared his opinion on this issue. His vision of the situation reflects quite well some of the features of the Russian IT market. Today, the myth is quite popular, according to which work in a startup guarantees an infinite number of interesting tasks and huge earnings if you are one of the co-founders of the company. Who just didn’t talk about this: from Paul Graham to Arlington






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    Experts are not always ready to refute this myth and are often forced to support it with all their might. They represent the corporate environment in the form of a bunch of losers who do not even try to do anything other than regular visits to the office from 10 to 6.

    Simple arithmetic calculations show that even the average level of wages in an American IT company will allow us to talk about a more stable and predictable income level.

    If we talk exclusively about life and work in the United States, many are confident that the high cost of living will not allow us to accumulate any significant amount of money over several years of work, but this is not so. One of the main ways to reduce costs is telecommuting, which allows you not to spend too much on renting a house a stone's throw from the office.

    Another advantage of the corporate sector is that the hiring process itself is more predictable and understandable. On Habré and other sites, a lot of material was published about how the selection process is organized in Google and other companies.

    Work in startups means the absence of any level of stability. Today you are going to a couple of meetings, and tomorrow you are forced to deal with a fallen project that could not withstand the load after the Techcrunch article. Things are even worse with those who came to the startup as an employee, but this opinion is quite controversial.


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    Startup is synonymous with an IPO or acquisition by a larger company for millions of dollars. Of course, this is true, but for a very small percentage of projects. Experts estimate the chances of an average startup below one percent, and this is quite optimistic.

    One way or another, success stories haunt the founders. They take risks and create their projects, forgetting about more comfortable working conditions in large companies.

    Of course, few people want to spend several tens of hours each week solely on making money. Here the most important idea and the opportunity to experiment during its implementation. For this, and go to startups.

    On the other hand, one cannot say that large companies offer only routine. If you compare the work, for example, in the field of DevOps, then it is worth seriously considering what the established team can offer you.

    Most likely you will be able to get not only a highly loaded project, but a substantial budget for its optimization along with the opportunity to discuss your tasks and problems with a wider circle of experts. In startups, getting something like this will be very difficult.

    Many novice professionals are skeptical of what experience can be gained in the framework of a large IT company. Here, everything again rests on startup myths. In fact, they are only good if your goal is to gain experience in the field of entrepreneurship.

    As in the case of an IT corporation, as well as in the framework of a startup, everything will depend on what you would like to do and the efforts that you will be ready to make on the path to achieving your personal goals and objectives.

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